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2. Outdoor education - Wikipedia

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   Outdoor education programs sometimes involve residential or journey wilderness -based experiences in which students participate in a variety of adventurous challenges and outdoor activities such as hiking, climbing, canoeing, ropes courses and group games. Outdoor education draws upon the philosophy, theory, and practices of experiential ...

3. Culturally relevant teaching - Wikipedia

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   Culturally relevant teaching is instruction that takes into account students' cultural differences. Making education culturally relevant is thought to improve academic achievement, [1] but understandings of the construct have developed over time [2] Key characteristics and principles define the term, and research has allowed for the development ...

4. Progressive education - Wikipedia

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   Progressive education, or educational progressivism, is a pedagogical movement that began in the late 19th century and has persisted in various forms to the present. In Europe, progressive education took the form of the New Education Movement. The term progressive was engaged to distinguish this education from the traditional curricula of the 19th century, which was rooted in classical ...

5. Social studies - Wikipedia

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   Social studies. In many countries' curricula, social studies is the combined study of humanities, the arts, and social sciences, mainly including history, economics, and civics. The term was first coined by American educators around the turn of the twentieth century as a catch-all for these subjects, as well as others which did not fit into the ...

6. Uche Okeke - Wikipedia

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   Uche Okeke. Christopher Uchefuna Okeke ( listen ⓘ; April 30, 1933 – January 5, 2016), also known as Uche Okeke ( listen ⓘ ), was an illustrator, painter, sculptor, and teacher. He was an art and aesthetic theorist, seminal to Nigerian modernism .

7. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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   The five themes of geography are an educational tool for teaching geography. The five themes were published in 1984 [1] and widely adopted by teachers, textbook publishers, and curriculum designers in the United States. [2] Most American geography and social studies classrooms have adopted the five themes in teaching practices, [3] as they provide "an alternative to the detrimental, but ...