ABSTRACT
This edited volume draws together educators and scholars to engage with the difficulties and benefits of teaching place-based education in a distinctive culture-laden area in North America: the United States South. Despite problematic past visions of cultural homogeneity, the South has always been a culturally diverse region with many historical layers of inhabitation and migration, each with their own set of religious and secular relationships to the land. Through site-specific narratives, this volume offers a blueprint for new approaches to place-based pedagogy, with an emphasis on the intersection between religion and the environment. By offering broadly applicable examples of pedagogical methods and practices, this book confronts the need to develop more sustainable local communities to address globally significant challenges.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
Place, Theology, Practice
chapter 3|11 pages
Field Trip: The Star on the Mountain
part II|56 pages
Engaging with Community Through Place
chapter 6|19 pages
Placing Pedagogy and Sustainability in the Piedmont
chapter 8|17 pages
Why Do We Live Where We Do?
part III|30 pages
Wounded Places, Healing Places
chapter 10|12 pages
Toward a New Kind of Piety
chapter 11|3 pages
Field Trip: Navigating Troubled Waters
part IV|35 pages
Assessing, Concluding, Moving Forward