Encountering Ideas of Place in Education

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.

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.

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