Education in the 21st century.

Reflection #2: Place-based learning: perspectives on different audiences. When you look through the lens of a kaleidoscope, what do you see? Those beautiful images of patterns that keep changing as you focus the lens on different objects, bring a sense of magic to mind, doesn’t it? That is what I see, when I look through the lens of place-based education: so many opportunities, beautiful places and ideas to explore… Place-based education has quite an important strength as it can adapt to a specific place due to its unique features (Smith, 2002). Thus, a variety of audiences would have an opinion and hopefully a growth mindset about this type of education. With the current theme of sustainability for Inquiry in mind, I am reminded of the mountains around our school property in the south of Auckland. Questions come to mind such as ‘What is the historical significance? Who lived here?’ I believe that my students and their whanau - local audiences, - and myself can answer this when