Diverse Pedagogies of Place: Educating Students in and for Local and Global Environments

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Peter Renshaw (University of Queensland, Australia) Ron Tooth (University of Queensland, Australia)

Diverse Pedagogies of Place

Educating Students in and for Local and Global Environments

Peter Renshaw (University of Queensland, Australia), Ron Tooth (University of Queensland, Australia)

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Routledge
10 August 2017

Teaching of a specific subject; Geography; Sustainability

Series: Routledge Research in Education

Diverse Pedagogies of Place presents eight original place-responsive pedagogies that address a question of paramount importance in today’s world: how do we educate the next generation of students to confront the challenges of global climate change and the on-going degradation of natural environments? Each place-responsive pedagogy is a result of innovative environmental educators’ long-term engagement with particular places, and demonstrates that personal connectedness is crucial to effective environmental education.

Professional learning and teacher collaboration is an important theme throughout the book, and the editors discuss how teachers could adapt the learning activities and teaching strategies found in the book in order to create their own place-responsive pedagogies. Each case study provides a rich account of how students can learn to be attentive and draws upon a common analytical framework derived from recent theorisation of place that highlights the centrality of stories-in-place, embodiment, and contestation. The authors present detailed and persuasive evidence that place-responsive pedagogies enable students to construct their own identities, as well as develop commitments and a deeper knowledge of the environments that surround them.

A work of international relevance, Diverse Pedagogies of Place will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of environmental education and sustainability, place-based education, outdoor learning, professional learning and teacher development, as well as policymakers and environmental educators.

Edited by: Peter Renshaw (University of Queensland Australia), Ron Tooth (University of Queensland, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138906693
ISBN 10: 1138906697
Series: Routledge Research in Education
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 10 August 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Diverse Place-responsive Pedagogies: Historical, Professional and Theoretical Threads 2. Pedagogy as Advocacy in and for Place 3. Pedagogy as Story in Landscape 4. Pedagogy as Slow Time in the Extra Ordinary Bush 5. Pedagogy as Walking Country at Barambah 6. Pedagogy in the Clouds – between Heaven and Earth – at Paluma 7. Pedagogy as Shifting Sands at Nudgee Beach 8. Pedagogy of the Edge at Moreton Bay 9. Place-responsive Design for School Settings 10. Environmental Educators Learning and Theorizing Place-responsive Pedagogy

Peter Renshaw (PhD) is Professor of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research draws on sociocultural theory to address issues of pedagogy, social justice and inclusion. In the past decade he has collaborated with Ron Tooth to research environmental education and place-responsive pedagogies. He is Senior Editor of the Routledge/AARE book series Local/Global Issues in Education. Ron Tooth (PhD) is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, and founding Principal of the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre, Australia. His experience at the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre has given him an extended history of professional engagement with teachers and students. Ron has also worked as a consultant for local councils and schools to lead the design of environmental programs based on a narrative pedagogy called Storythread.

Reviews for Diverse Pedagogies of Place: Educating Students in and for Local and Global Environments

‘This fine book, edited by Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth, contains many examples of place-responsive pedagogies drawn from environmental education centres and the educators who live and work there. We hear their voices along with the students who visit the centres. We hear local histories and the stories from long time inhabitants. Collectively, they reveal a range of thoughtful and inspiring pedagogic approaches that resonate with advocacy, a sense of slow time, walking and deep reflection, sacredness and Indigeneous ways of knowing. There are positive, uplifting accounts, and there are challenging stories of sensitive ecologies and those educators who continue to work for their preservation. There could be no stronger reminder that all places are in a state of change, and that our future as a society is bound up with how we care for them.’ - Brian Wattchow, PhD, Federation University, Australia