Encountering Ideas of Place in Education - Scholarship and Practice in Place-Based Learning

This book draws together theories, research, and practice on knowledges and pedagogies of place across educational settings.

List of contents

PART 1: BEING IN PLACE 1. Bee-ing and Feeling of Place 2. Encountering the Riverina: Developing inter-cultural capabilities in Indigenous science environmental education 3. Reframing children's disempowered relationships with once-familiar places through Eco-Capabilities 4. Encountering the Everyday: Place writing during geography fieldwork 5. Place-based learning initiatives in the Burrenbeo 6. A place-based pedagogy for outdoor education PART 2: COMMUNITY PLACES, PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES 7. Documenting young children's perspectives of their locality through their multi-modal representations of space 8. Mapping the importance of place, identity and local ways of knowing 9. Place-based education: Fostering local identities among Thailand's youth 10. Young people's musings on community at a community radio station 11. Place-based education: Understanding and investigating the important questions 12. Possibilities of a radical pedagogy of place: Lessons from Haocha 13. Developing a virtual sense of place PART 3: ENCOUNTERING PLACE IN EDUCATIONAL SPACES 14. Home, place and young people's geographies in the classroom 15. Fostering the Traveller child's sense of place in education 16. Interrupting the everyday: Students' photography in reimagining their places 17. Diversity, demographics and sense of place: English as an Additional Language pupils' school experiences 18. Difference and diversity: teaching climate change through an attention to place 19. Exploring the geographical palimpsest of place through local and international fieldwork 20. Conclusion

About the author

Emma Rawlings Smith is Lecturer in Sustainability and Geography Education at the University of Southampton, England.
Susan Pike is Assistant Professor of Geography Education, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Summary

This book draws together theories, research, and practice on knowledges and pedagogies of place across educational settings.

Product details

• Authors: Emma (University of Oxford Rawlings Smith
• Assisted by: Susan Pike (Editor), Pike Susan (Editor), Emma Rawlings Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032478241
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247824-1
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Sustainability, EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Research, EDUCATION / Non-Formal Education, teacher training, Secondary Schools, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Physical geography & topography, Primary & middle schools, Physical geography and topography, Moral & social purpose of education, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary