Pedagogy of place : seeing space as cultural education /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Callejo-Pérez, David M., 1972-, Slater, Judith J., Fain, Stephen M., 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2004]
Series:Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 263.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : understanding place as a social aspect of education / David M. Callejo Pérex, Stephen M. Fain, & Judith J. Slater
  • I. Place as a social tool
  • The construction of public space / Stephen M. Fain
  • The erosion of the public space / Judith J. Slater
  • The fall of the public academic / Donna L. Adair Breault
  • II. 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 a "story of school" / Cheryl L. Craig
  • III. Place as political and historical
  • Away with all teachers : the cultural politics of home schooling / Michael W. 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.