1st Edition
Critical Geographies in/of Education Revisiting Discursive and Spatial Reckonings
Critical Geographies in/of Education: Introduction
Robert J. Helfenbein and Hill Taylor
Critical Geographies of Education: New Reckonings
Robert J. Helfenbein, Hill Taylor, and Alicia Bannerman
1. Situated Pedagogy and the Situationist International: Countering a Pedagogy of Placelessness
John Kitchens
Appendix – Situated Pedagogy Revisited: The Challenges of the "Post-Truth" Era
John Kitchens
2. Christina's Worlds: Negotiating Childhood in the City
Jessica Zacher Pandya
Appendix – Reflecting on the Whiteness in "Christina’s Worlds"
Jessica Zacher Pandya
3. Spaces of Difference: The Contradictions of Alternative Educational Programs
Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur
Appendix – Learning as Space Becomes Place: Critical Geographies, Walking Methodologies, and Future-Oriented Entanglements
Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, Natacha Monestel Mora, Auralia Brooke
4. On Transnational Curriculum: Symbols, Languages, and Arrangements in an Educational Space
Ping-Chuan Peng
5. Mapping Everyday: Gender, Blackness, and Discourse in Urban Contexts
Hill Taylor Jr. and Robert J. Helfenbein
Appendix – Reimagining Critical Geography: Health, Creativity, and the Transformative Power of Blue Space
Hill Taylor
Afterword
Chris Osmond and Hill Taylor
Biography
Robert J. Helfenbein is Professor of Curriculum Studies in the Tift College of Education at Mercer University. Dr. Helfenbein has published numerous research articles about contemporary education analysis in urban contexts and the single author book Critical Geographies of Education: Space, Place, and Curriculum Inquiry (Routledge, Summer 2021). His current research interests include curriculum theorizing in urban contexts, cultural studies of education, critical geographies of education and contemporary social theory, and the impact of globalization on the lived experience of schools.
Hill Taylor is an educator and researcher whose work explores the intersections of the health humanities, blue humanities, and the dynamic relationships between humans and their environments. Before joining the English and Comparative Literature department at the University of North Carolina in 2021, he served as Assistant Professor and Director of the Office of Learning Support at Oregon Health & Science University. His scholarship bridges composition and rhetoric, environmental and health humanities, and critical approaches to geography and place-based education.
