Pedagogy of place : seeing space as cultural education Introduction : understanding place as a social aspect of education Place as a social tool The construction of public spaces Stephen M. Fain The erosion of the public space Judith J. Slater The fall of the public academic Donna L. Adair The aesthetics and environment of place Traces patterns texture : in search of aesthetic teaching learning encounters Margaret MacIntyre Latta An environment for developing souls : the ideas of Rudolf Steiner Bruce Uhrmacher School as parkland : the re invention of story of school Cheryl J. Craig Place as political and historical Away with all teachers : the cultural politics of home schooling Michael Apple Identity literature schools and race : Southern writers and literature as a metaphor for place David M. Callejo Pérez Getting from farmhouse to schoolhouse : school consolidation pupil transportation and the limits of educational reform in Mississippi Corey Lesseig