Intricate waters: A critical literature review of place-based education

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Date
2017-04-20Author
Webber, Geoffrey
Type
ThesisDegree Level
MastersMetadata
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This Masters thesis introduces and problematizes place-based education for practitioners and scholars. A critical literature review explores the foundations of place-based education to reveal key concepts, debates, and unresolved issues in the field. Engaging the metaphor of a watershed, literature representative of outdoor education, non-formal education, experiential learning, critical pedagogies, place-based education and land-based education literature is synthesized. Place-based education literature is analyzed and ordered chronologically and thematically to conceptualize the field. Key findings consider the main confluences within place-based education literature including: social and ecological analysis, curricular implications, the effect of linguistic and critical frameworks, connections to Indigenous education as well as directions for future scholarship.
Degree
Master of Education (M.Ed.)Department
Educational FoundationsProgram
Educational FoundationsSupervisor
McVittie, Janet; Campbell , CraigCommittee
Miller , Dianne; McClaren , Milton; Murphy , ShaunCopyright Date
June 2017Subject
place-based education
critical literature review