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Out There Learning is an edited collection that explores the pedagogical foundations of what it means to learn "out there" - on short-term, off-campus programs and field courses.
List of contents
SECTION 1: THE PROCESSES OF LEARNING OUT THERE Section Overview
Where the past and present intersect ...
Sam Kerr
CHAPTER ONE
"You cannot avoid all of this past, present, and future when it’s everywhere around you": Reflecting Relational Thinking in Field Study Experiences
Kacy McKinney
Living in the moment ...
Emily Halvorsen
CHAPTER TWO
An Integrative, Thematic Approach to International Field Study Programs
Aaron Williams
Being part of something bigger ...
Kathleen O’Reilly
CHAPTER THREE
The Enlivened Classroom: Bringing the Field Back to Campus
Nakanyike B. Musisi
There is no front of the classroom here ...
Rob Cook
CHAPTER FOUR
Settlers Unsettled: Using Field Schools and Digital Stories to Transform Geographies of Ignorance About Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Heather Castleden, Kiley Daley, Vanessa Sloan Morgan, and Paul Sylvestre
Discovering traces of the past ...
Sara Lax
SECTION 2: IMPLICATIONS OF PLACE
Section Overview
Connecting with the community ...
Aisling Kennedy
CHAPTER FIVE
Outsider Education: Indigenous Law and Land-Based Learning
John Borrows
Live life with significance ...
Freya Selander
CHAPTER SIX
Putting Law in its Place: Field School Explorations of Indigenous and Colonial Legal Geographies
Deborah Curran
Mysteries remain ...
Laura Buchan
CHAPTER SEVEN
Power in Place: Dilemmas in Leading Field Schools to the Global South
Elizabeth Vibert and Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta
What you can’t get from a textbook ...
Sarah Elwood
SECTION 3: ASSESSING THE VALUE OF THE JOURNEY
Section Overview
Kuala Lumpur & Singapore Comparison I and II
Bonny Fu
CHAPTER EIGHT
Getting beyond "It changed my life": Assessment of Out-There Transformation
Janelle S. Peifer and Elaine Meyer-Lee
9:14 AM: Saturday, May 14, 2016
"The world moves through us" ...
Jake Noah Sherman
CHAPTER NINE
Assessing Learning "Out There": Four Key Challenges and Opportunities
Cameron Owens and Maral Sotoudehnia
Embracing complexities ...
Liah Formby
CHAPTER TEN
Transformation in the Field: Short-Term Study Abroad and the Pursuit of Changes
Michael R. Glass
Education can be empowering ...
Emily Tennent
About the author
Deborah Curran is associate professor in the Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.
Cameron Owens is associate teaching professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria.
Helga Thorson is associate professor and chair in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria.
Elizabeth Vibert is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. She is the author of
Traders' Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000).
Summary
Out There Learning is an edited collection that explores the pedagogical foundations of what it means to learn “out there” - on short-term, off-campus programs and field courses.
