Product Description
by Deric Shannon (Editor), Jeffery Galle (Editor)
Introduction: Where We Are: Place, Pedagogy, and the Outer Limits
Section 1: Here
1. Teaching on the Farm: Farm as Place in the Sociology of Food and Sustainability
2. Reclaiming Interiority as Place and Practice
3. Turning Your Place Into Projects
4. The Story of Here: Documentary Film Education, Teaching Narratives, and Drawing from the Critical Perspective of Place
5. Pedagogy and Place in Science Education
6. The Potential for Place Based Learning Experiences on the College Campus
Section 2: There
7. Stepping off the Page: Teaching Literature with a Pedagogy of Place
8. Public Education Against Neoliberal Capitalism: Illustrations and Opportunities
9. Queering Place: Using the Classroom to Describe the World
10. Seeking Peace, Seeking Justice: Place-Based Pedagogies and Global Connections
11. Redefining Learning Places in the Emerging Digital Ecosystem
12. Teaching and Learning from Within: A Placed-Based Pedagogy for Heartfelt Hope
Back Jacket
This book brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to creatively engage with place in the context of pedagogy. Beginning with an exploration of traditional place-based forms of education, such as outdoor education, travel courses, and courses on sustainability, the authors go on to expand our popular notions of place, including the classroom, the campus, our interior selves, and our digital ecosystems. This reconsideration of place-based education represents not only an engagement of prior literature on pedagogy and place, but also a re-imagining of the role that place might play in education. Authors stretch the notion of place, arguing for a holistic approach to disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, bringing into focus an array of contentious issues in philosophies and methods of teaching for multiple academic disciplines and their many intersections.
Author Biography
Deric Shannon is Assistant Professor of Sociology, History and Social Sciences Division at Emory University, USA.
Jeffery Galle is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Academic Excellence at Emory University, USA.
