Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Place: Lessons for Environmental Education
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Sense of place is lauded as critical to developing an environmentally conscious and responsive citizenry. Calls for place-based education have often arisen from an emotional plea to reconnect to the land, become rooted, and conserve natural places. However, in reality, sense of place encompasses a multidimensional array that is not only biophysical, but also psychological, sociocultural, political, and economic. This paper reviews the sense-of-place literature and argues for an integrated, holistic view of place, particularly as it applies to environmental education. Recognizing these interconnected dimensions encourages environmental education that more effectively, practically, and honestly integrates sense of place with real-world issues of environmental learning, involvement, action, and community-based conservation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | 2006 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ardoin, Nicole M. |
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| Sponsor | World Wildlife Fund |
| Sponsor | John F. Enders Fund |
| Sponsor | Hixon Center for Urban Ecology |
| Sponsor | The Mountaineers Foundation |
| Sponsor | Project AWARE Foundation |
| Sponsor | Tropical Resources Institute |
| Sponsor | Yale Center for Field Ecology |
| Sponsor | Yale Center for International and Area Studies |
| Sponsor | Yale Graduate and Professional Student Senate |
| Publisher | Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM) |
| Publisher | Lakehead University |
Subjects
| Subject | environmental education |
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| Subject | environmentally responsible behavior |
| Subject | interdisciplinary |
| Subject | place attachment |
| Subject | sense of place |
| Genre | Article |
Bibliographic information
| Related Publication | Ardoin, N. (2006). Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Place: Lessons for Environmental Education. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 11. |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qd988vx9940 |
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