Pedagogies of place: conserving forms of place-based environmental education during a pandemic. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stickney, Jeff
• Is Part Of: Ethics and education. Volume 18:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 67
• Page End: 85
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: Place-based education -- environment -- Michael Bonnett -- Martin Heidegger -- Ludwig Wittgenstein -- digital technology; Education -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Education -- Aims and objectives -- Periodicals; Education -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Moral education -- Periodicals; 370.1
• DOI: 10.1080/17449642.2023.2188721
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-9642

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Can on-line 'place-based learning' be more than a facsimile or ritual? Using a phenomenology of my pandemic practice, I investigate the meaning of 'place-based learning:' entertaining Aristotle's seminal thought on place as a container to venture into contemporary phenomenological inquiries where places and things are not only conceptually implicated by each other, but immanent and potentially powerful elements in learning experiences. Bonnett's (2021) ecologizing of education shows that authentic forms must be embodied and emplaced in order to open learners to the more in situ, deeply-contextualized and yet 'transcendental' and 'ecstatic' reception of the more-than-human realm of nature (as what comes-forth, phusis ). But this Heideggerian narrative with which I resonate poses challenges for students and place-based educators. Wittgenstein's philosophical approach, itself modelled on place-based investigation of language (our 'home city'), draws me back from metaphysical inclinations to dwell constructively on ordinary discourses rooted in educational practices.