ABSTRACT
This chapter describes children's activities, projects, and social actions comprise some important elements of PBE. Basically, place-based education grounds curriculum and teaching in the geography, social issues, and problems of students' immediate communities. The chapter recognizes the challenges of implementing critical PBE given the conservative culture of schools today and, as significant, the non-critical orientation of teachers, teacher education, schools, and society. Peace education can provide much insight regarding the social/cultural changes that are needed to address the roots of ecological degradation. A National Wildlife Federation report described children and the elderly as most at risk from immediate as well as long-term anxiety due to climate disruptions. Global environmental disruption is here and now, and it is going to get worse.
