Place and Sustainability Education for the Anthropocene: A Transnational Inquiry of Generative Tensions and Innovative Practices

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session convenes an international research collaborative conducting place-focused sustainability inquiry in Australia, the US, Canada, and Norway. This team builds on a significant record of theorizing curriculum and pedagogy within the framework of place to ask: How will we learn to live sustainably in this new age of the Anthropocene, and how will we educate the next generation of citizens and leaders for this new world? Conceptually, the session will explore six generative tensions that represent a “cutting edge” of each participant’s work. Methodologically, the session creates a contact zone for investigating the meaning of place in a wider global context. This research develops the methodology of complex transnational conversations that bridge local, regional and global knowledges.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chair

• Noel Gough, La Trobe University

Papers

• Rootedness and Movement: What the “New Mobilities Paradigm” Offers Place-Responsive Discourses - David A. Greenwood, Lakehead University

• “Thinking Through Country” as an Everyday Practice of Place - Margaret Jean Somerville, University of Western Sydney

• Place-Based Pedagogy: Ecofeminism and “Standing With the Other” - Julie M. Matthews, University of the Sunshine Coast

• Global Sense of Place? A Cultural Turn for Place and Sustainability Education - Inger Birkeland, Telemark University College

• Mapping Sustainability Across the Gippsland Region: Working With Generative Tensions - Monica Green, Monash University

• Curriculum Geographies and Global Sustainability: A Project for a Precarious Age - Bill Green, Charles Sturt University