…programs intended to inspire learning through interdisciplinary place-based projects. http://www.exploringsenseofplace.org/ A teacher’s guide for incorporating place in curriculum. The website at www.place.nesinc.com, where this image comes from, provides resources for…
…2008 “Poetry and Place: some personal reflections” Geography, Vol 93 _Part 3 2008 accessed at http://www.owensheers.co.uk/pdf/geography.pdf Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place accessed at http://www.hevanet.com/windfall/poetryofplace.html Wordsworth, William, 1798 “Lines…
…Asian community. The photo on the right shows the view from the podium on a day when the square is not in use for an event. Compare this use of…
…Gelebtner, Erfarhrener und Erinnertner Raum, ed Hg, von J. Hasse, andR.J. Kozlanic, Jahrbuch für Lebensphilosophie, V, 2010/11. “Reflectoes sobre a emergencia, aspectos e a essencia de lugar” in Lugar, ed…
…Hume, 1777, My Own Life, available at https://davidhume.org/texts/mol/ • John Stuart Mill, Autobiography available at https://www.utilitarianism.com/millauto/ • Friedrich Engels, 1845, The Condition of the English Working Class in 1844, available…
…Public Land, which “creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy livable communities for generations to come,” had a 2015 donation campaign entitled The Power of Place that raised…
…these graphs imply. (Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/18/europes-population-crisis-see-how-your-country-compares-visualised) Where immigration has not compensated for a falling population, for instance Japan, the evidence of population decline is already visible in abandoned houses and depopulated…
…E., 1946, Collected papers of Evelyn Underhill, Longmans, Green & Company, New York, NY. Weiner, Eric, 2012 “Where Heaven and Earth Come Closer” New York Times, accessed at https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/travel/thin-places-where-we-are-jolted-out-of-old-ways-of-seeing-the-world.html …
…local community and environment as a starting point to teach concepts in language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other subjects across the curriculum…Hands on, real world learning experiences help…
…communities are effectively under siege. The systematic destruction of homes has led to deeply ambivalent senses of place that somehow blend feelings of safety and oppression, stability and loss, rituals…