Pedagogy of place
Subtitle: seeing space as cultural education
By: edited by David M. Callejo Pérez, Stephen M. Fain, and Judith J. Slater ; with a foreword by William H. Schubert
Contributors: Callejo-Pérez, David M., 1972-; Slater, Judith J; Fain, Stephen M., 1940-
Series: Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education -- vol. 263; Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) -- v. 263
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Educational sociology; Geography -- Philosophy; Aesthetics -- Philosophy; Postmodernism and education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: 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