Key resources for learning about, and being inspired for, ecological place-based education.
BOOKS
Wild Pedagogies: Touchstones for Renegotiating Education and the Environment in the Anthropocene edited by Bob Jickling, Sean Blenkinsop, Nora Timmerman and Michael De Danann Sitka-Sage. Read Lee’s review here.
Place-based Education in the Global Age edited by David Greenwood and Gregory Smith
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Wissom of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Land Education: Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives edited by Kate McCoy, Eve Tuck and Marcia McKenzie
Place-based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities by David Sobel
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy and Place-based Education edited by Deric Shannon and Jeffrey Galle
A Pedagogy of Place: Outdoor Education for a Changing World by Brian Wattchow and Mike Brown
Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World by David Abram
Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World by Joanna Macy & Molly Brown
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
The Paradox of Wild Pedagogies: Loss and Hope Next to a Norwegian Glacier by Lee Beavington, Chris Beeman, Sean Blenkinsop, Marianne Presthus Heggen & Erika Kazi
The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place by David A. Gruenewald
Indigenous Environmental Education for Cultural Survival by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
We Need a New Story: Walking and the wâhkôhtowin Imagination by Dwayne Donald
Ecology and Colour in 1m2: A Contemplative, Place-based Study by Lee Beavington, Amy Huestis & Carson Keever
Walking Pedagogy for Science Education and More-Than-Human Connection by Lee Beavington
Bird Language and Contemplative Education in the Anthropocene by Lee Beavington
AUDIO
Advanced Bird Language: Reading the Concentric Rings of Nature
The Lost Words: Spell Songs – An extraordinary album of songs inspired by nature words removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary
FILM
Mountain directed by Jennifer Peedom
River directed by Jennifer Peedom
WEBSITES
Aldo Leopold: Thinking Like a Mountain (PDF)
Aldo Leopold’s six teaching principles
Place-based Learning in Digital Universities
David Haskell: The Forest Unseen
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Teachings of the Grasses
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” ~Thoreau