Diverse Pedagogies of Place

Peter Renshaw (PhD) is Professor of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research draws on sociocultural theory to address issues of pedagogy, social justice and inclusion. In the past decade he has collaborated with Ron Tooth to research environmental education and place-responsive pedagogies. He is Senior Editor of the Routledge/AARE book series Local/Global Issues in Education.Ron Tooth (PhD) is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, and founding Principal of the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre, Australia. His experience at the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre has given him an extended history of professional engagement with teachers and students. Ron has also worked as a consultant for local councils and schools to lead the design of environmental programs based on a narrative pedagogy called Storythread.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Diverse Place-responsive Pedagogies: Historical, Professional and Theoretical Threads 2. Pedagogy as Advocacy in and for Place 3. Pedagogy as Story in Landscape 4. Pedagogy as Slow Time in the Extra Ordinary Bush 5. Pedagogy as Walking Country at Barambah 6. Pedagogy in the Clouds – between Heaven and Earth – at Paluma 7. Pedagogy as Shifting Sands at Nudgee Beach 8. Pedagogy of the Edge at Moreton Bay 9. Place-responsive Design for School Settings 10. Environmental Educators Learning and Theorizing Place-responsive Pedagogy

‘This fine book, edited by Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth, contains many examples of place-responsive pedagogies drawn from environmental education centres and the educators who live and work there. We hear their voices along with the students who visit the centres. We hear local histories and the stories from long time inhabitants. Collectively, they reveal a range of thoughtful and inspiring pedagogic approaches that resonate with advocacy, a sense of slow time, walking and deep reflection, sacredness and Indigeneous ways of knowing. There are positive, uplifting accounts, and there are challenging stories of sensitive ecologies and those educators who continue to work for their preservation. There could be no stronger reminder that all places are in a state of change, and that our future as a society is bound up with how we care for them.’ - Brian Wattchow, PhD, Federation University, Australia