Tag: Place-Based Education

Place-based Ecological/Environmental Lesson

Lesson Title Images of Exploration: Painting, drawing, and photography as records of Observation The Rationale for the Lesson Last fall, I co-facilitated a leadership summit for middle-school age young people in St. Paul on the Pribilof Islands. One of the skill sets about a third of the young people self-identified as very interesting was video…


ED 681 Reflection Paper

  Introduction Thinking about my process of entering a new discipline or field of study, I look for vocabulary or conceptual points of similarity between the known and the new. One point of recognition came in Seamon’s essay Place Attachment and Phenomenology, particularly his term “place ballet” he says, “…place ballet may be significant in…