Dr Susan Pike, Assistant Professor in Geography Education at TCD and Dr Emma Rawlings Smith Lecturer in Sustainability and Geography (University of Southampton) have published a new book, ‘Encountering Place in Education’. The edited book draws together theories, research, and practice on knowledges and pedagogies of place across educational settings.
Emma and Susan bought together authors to co-constructed by working collaboratively across different contexts. Their chapters examine key themes such as justice, mobilities, changes, and sustainability, through place. With 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 include:
- Encountering the Riverina: Developing inter-cultural capabilities in Indigenous science environmental education Holly Randell-Moon and Nicholas Ruddell
- Reframing children’s disempowered relationships with once-familiar places through Eco-Capabilities Nicola Walshe, Zoe Moula and Hilary Cox-Condron
- Documenting young children’s perspectives of their locality through their multi-modal representations of space Córa Gillic and Celine Govern
- Young people’s musings on community at a community radio station Catherine Wilkinson and Samantha Wilkinson
- Possibilities of a radical pedagogy of place: Lessons from Haocha Yi Chien Jade Ho and Hui-Nien Lin
- Fostering the Traveller child’s sense of place in education Paula Walshe and Nora Corcoran
- Diversity, demographics and sense of place: English as an Additional Language pupils’ school experiences Ellen Bishop and Lucy Manners
- Difference and diversity: Teaching climate change through an attention to place Catherine Walker and Andrew Vance
‘Encountering Place in Education’ 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.
The book details and preview are available here. And series of collaborative and active webinars with chapter authors and other guest are planned for 2024:
Tuesday 16th January 2024, 6pm
Tuesday 20th February 2024, 6pm
Tuesday 19th March 2024, 6pm
To register for these events, please email susan.pike@tcd.ie. All welcome!