Teaching and Place - a Mutual Relation

Title
Teaching and Place - a Mutual Relation
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Noone, Genevieve
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9663-2675
Email: gnoone2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:gnoone2
Editor
Editor(s): Sandra Wooltorton and Dora Marinova
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE)
Place of publication
Bunbury, Australia
UNE publication id
une:8620
Abstract
"To be at all - to exist in any way - is to be somewhere and to be somewhere is to be in some kind of place... Nothing we do is unplaced." --Edward Casey (1997: 3). Teaching occurs in place. Every teacher is teaching somewhere; in some place. In fact, everybody is always in some place; in some part of the world: 'even the exiled, the drifting, the diasporic or the perpetually moving, live in some ... stretch of it' (Geertz, 1996: 262). But place is more than just the physical location; the site we can pinpoint using cartography and global positioning systems. Place is both physical and non-physical. Place is sensed, embodied and relational. According to Edward Casey (1997: 286) place 'is no fixed thing ... [it is] part of something ongoing and dynamic, ingredient in something else.' This paper considers place as an ingredient in teaching; and in particular in the teaching of environmental education. It presents data from research with graduate1 teachers in rural schools; a study which employed a methodology based in the creative arts in order to facilitate the participants' representations of their relations with place. In exploring the relation between teaching and place I suggest that this relation is mutual: to teach is to be in a mutual relation with place.
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Citation
Sharing wisdom for our future, Environmental education in action: Proceedings of the National Conference of the Australian Association for Environmental Education, p. 215-227
ISBN
9780957833517
Start page
215
End page
227

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