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

ISBN-13: 9780367583705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 214 str.

Lucas Johnston; Dave Aftandilian

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.