Full Description
In Reading and Writing Place: Connecting Rural Schools and Communities Erika L. Bass and Amy Price Azano suggest there is a need to add nuance to the ways we consider and engage with place in the classroom. Using a narrative writing project completed with two rural schools in two states, the authors provide an explanation of critical placed education and how students' explorations of place through writing led the authors to develop a concept of place (Big "P" and small "p" place). Students' explorations of place highlighted the how internalizations and externalizations of place impact identity formation and sense of belonging.
Contents
Foreword, Robert E. Brooke
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Making Place Matter
Chapter 2: Reading and Writing Place
Chapter 3: A Nuanced Theory of P/place
Chapter 4: Rural Contexts Explored
Chapter 5: Constructing a Critical Placed Unit
Chapter 6: Externalizing Place
Chapter 7: Internalizing Place
Chapter 8: Exploring P/place Through Place Narratives
Chapter 9: Place and Meaning Making for Rural Students
References
Appendix A: Texts Used in Memoir Unit
Appendix B: Research Methodology
About the Authors
