Abstract
How does one learn, and teach, a sense of place? How to promote, pedagogically, a rich, pluri-dimensional, 'internally persuasive', socially powerful understanding that place matters? What is it that educators must do in order that others might learn ' and, in the case of those others who are children, become the citizens of the future and the custodians of the lifeworld? More specifically perhaps, how to bring together 'places' and 'senses', in the situated literacy work of primary school teachers and their students, learners all? These are some of the questions that this paper seeks both to evoke and to explore, as does the larger project that informs it. Our focus here is on framing and introducing the project, and then on presenting an account of the discourses that shape children's writing (and artwork) in and about the Murray-Darling Basin, and their own special places within it.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Making Sense of Place |
| Subtitle of host publication | Exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses. |
| Editors | Matthew Higgins Frank Vanclay, Adam Blackshaw Adam Blackshaw |
| Place of Publication | Canberra |
| Publisher | National Museum of Australia |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Edition | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781876944513 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |