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Grounding Education in Environmental Humanities: Exploring Place-Based Pedagogies in the South book cover

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Grounding Education in Environmental Humanities Exploring Place-Based Pedagogies in the South

Edited By Lucas Johnston, Dave Aftandilian Copyright 2019
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited volume draws together educators and scholars to engage with the difficulties and benefits of teaching place-based education in a distinctive culture-laden area in North America: the United States South. Despite problematic past visions of cultural homogeneity, the South has always been a culturally diverse region with many historical layers of inhabitation and migration, each with... Read more

1. Joseph Witt, "Introducing Place-Based Pedagogy and ‘the South’"





Part One: PLACE, THEOLOGY, PRACTICE



2. Dave Aftandilian, "Connecting Students (and Faculty) to Place and Animals through Contemplative Practices"



3. Field Trip: J. Albert Nungaray, "The Star on the Mountain: Using Hands-On Experience of Native American Stories and Technologies to Teach Children about Place, Culture, and Self"



4. Jennifer R. Ayres, "Memories of Home: Theological Education, Place-Based Pedagogy, and Inhabitance"



5. Jill Y. Crainshaw, "Teaching the Sacraments through Profane Experiences"





Part Two: ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITY THROUGH PLACE



6. Lucas Johnston, "Placing Pedagogy and Sustainability in the Piedmont: Faculty and Student Engagement"



7. Field Trip: Lisa Blee, "Making Incarceration Visible: An Adventure in Shared Authority"



8. Eric E. Jones, "Why Do We Live Where We Do? Teaching Native American Cultural History and Anthropology in the North Carolina Piedmont"



9. Field Trip: Albert Meier, "Deep History of the Green River Preserve"





Part Three: WOUNDED PLACES, HEALING PLACES



10. Thomas Hallock, "Towards a New Kind of Piety: City Creeks, Place Making, and Lapsed Environmental Discourse on Florida’s Gulf Coast"



11. Field Trip: A. Whitney Sanford, "Navigating Uncomfortable Waters: Florida’s Talbot Islands and the Kingsley Plantation"



12. Charles Barber, "Teaching about Religion and HIV/AIDS among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in Atlanta, Georgia"





Part Four: ASSESSING, CONCLUDING, MOVING FORWARD



13. Field Trip: Rebekka King, "Intersections of Would, Can, and Will: What to Do When White Supremacists Come to Town"



14. Bobbi Patterson, "Pathway for Place-Based Pedagogies: A Pliable Taxonomy for Course Design and Assessment"



15. Field Trip: Dave Aftandilian, Meredith Doster, Lucas Johnston, Bella Mukonyora, A. Whitney Sanford, and Joseph Witt, "From Local Places to Global Networks: Front Porch Conversation at the Green River Preserve in Kentucky, May 2015"



16. Lucas Johnston and Dave Aftandilian, "Conclusion: Principles for Teaching about Place in the South"





Contributors

Biography

Dave Aftandilian is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Minor in Human-Animal Relationships at Texas Christian University.



Lucas F. Johnston is Associate Professor of Religion and Environment at Wake Forest University.

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