Building Playgrounds, Engaging Communities: Creating Safe and Happy Places for Children - Couverture rigide

Lima, Marybeth

 
9780807149805: Building Playgrounds, Engaging Communities: Creating Safe and Happy Places for Children
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0807149802 ISBN 13 : 9780807149805
Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2013

Synopsis

We accomplish extraordinary things when we do ordinary things together. This heartfelt and hopeful conviction led LSU professor Marybeth Lima to begin the LSU Community Playground Project as a way to involve her students in the larger Baton Rouge community. Fifteen years and over seven hundred students later, Building Playgrounds, Engaging Communities tells the remarkable story of the Playground Project's ongoing partnership with area public schools to design and build safe, fun, accessible, kid-designed playgrounds.

Lima's experiences with the Playground Project range from outright failures to hard-won victories. Overcoming the challenges of working with scarce resources and persevering despite many setbacks, Lima and her students succeeded with hope, humor, and dedication.

Building Playgrounds, Engaging Communities emphasizes the major impact people have when they work together for the common good--whether by building playgrounds, establishing neighborhood gardens, or participating in honest, respectful conversations. To this end, Lima provides an appendix with practical advice for local engagement. People wanting to make a difference in their communities can use this book as a road map; those active in long-term endeavors will draw on it for ideas and inspiration.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marybeth Lima is the Cliff and Nancy Spanier Alumni Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and director of the Center for Community Engagement, Learning, and Leadership at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She and her partner live in Baton Rouge with three rescue animals.

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Éditeur
Louisiana State University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807149802
ISBN 13 
9780807149805
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
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Personne responsable
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