ABSTRACT
As informal educators we operate in a wide variety of settings, often not of our making. Our work place can be wherever people congregate or spend time. This takes us into shopping malls, people’s homes, the corridors of schools and colleges, clubs, cafés, classrooms-the list goes on. Each has its own characteristics and these have a direct bearing on the work we can do. What is more, our identities are wrapped up with the places we inhabit. How we see ourselves as educators, and how those we work with come to understand themselves, are linked to a sense of place.
