ABSTRACT

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

Using empirical research on learning across education systems, each chapter highlights different concepts of place in various contexts such as environments, understandings of place like those experienced by communities and opportunities for embedding place in learning. Chapters are co-constructed by authors working collaboratively across different contexts, tackling key themes such as justice, mobilities, changes, and sustainability, through place.

The book indicates how educators can apply creative approaches to teaching within, through and about place in education and will therefore be of relevance to a wider range of academics, teachers and practitioners working in early years settings, schools, universities and other educational context.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

Encountering ideas of place in education

part 1|80 pages

Being in place

chapter 3|14 pages

‘The heart of the forest is here’

Reframing children's disempowered relationships with once-familiar places through Eco-Capabilities

chapter 4|12 pages

Encountering the everyday

Place-writing during geography fieldwork

part 2|90 pages

Community places, perspectives and experiences

chapter 9|14 pages

Fostering local identities among Thailand's youth

Place-based education

chapter 11|12 pages

Place-based education

Using enquiry-based learning to answer important questions

chapter 12|12 pages

Possibilities of a radical pedagogy of place

Lessons from Kucapungane

part 3|92 pages

Encountering place in educational spaces

chapter 16|14 pages

Interrupting the everyday

Students' photography in reimagining their places

chapter 17|12 pages

Diversity, demographics and sense of place

Educational experiences of multilingual students

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion

Encountering ideas of place in education: Looking to the future