Place, Environmental Thought & Education Reading Group
Meeting: February 24th from 12-1
Room: 308A
Students, faculty and staff welcome to join the Place & Education reading group, jointly hosted by the Quality of Life Committee and the EE Caucus.
The first readings have been selected by three EDCP graduate students, Julia Ostertag, Chessa Adsit-Morris and Djamila Moore. Jan Nespor‘s review essay considers how place and education are being conceptualized in the PBE (place-based education) movement, and offers some criticism of the work of Gruenewald, Smith, Bowers, and Theobald (Click Nespor, Education and Place for article). In a different tone all together, Douglas Paterson, from UBC Landscape Architecture, considers the decline of the sacred and public realm in the design and experience of place (Click Paterson, The power of now for article). By juxtaposing these two readings, we hope that our first reading group will be able to explore the breadth of issues that can be discussed within place theories and place-based education, as well as some of the possibilities and challenges inherent within their discourses.
Please feel free to bring your lunch! Contact Julia Ostertag (julia_ostertag@yahoo.ca) if you can’t access the articles.
Looking forward to discussing and “placing” ourselves,
Julia, Chessa & Djamila
References:
Nespor, J. (2008). Education and place: A review essay. Educational Theory, 58(4), 475-489.
Paterson, Douglas D. 1995. “Creating a Sense of the Sacred in the Public Realm.” In Environmental Theory Arena, Vol.3, No. 3, Summer 1995. (Reader)