Sense of place, identity and the revisioning of curriculum / Terry Locke.
Locke, Terry, 1946- author.
2023
LA134
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Title Sense of place, identity and the revisioning of curriculum / Terry Locke.
Author Locke, Terry, 1946- author.
ISBN 9789819942664 (electronic bk.)
9819942667 (electronic bk.)
9789819942657
9819942659
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4266-4
Published Singapore : Springer, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-99-4266-4 doi
Call Number LA134
Dewey Decimal Classification 370.1
Summary This book explores intersections between sense of place, the formation of identity, indigeneity and colonisation, literature and literary study, the arts, and a revisioned school curriculum for the Anthropocene. Underpinning the book is a conviction that sense of place is central to the fostering of the change of heart required to secure the survival of human life on earth. It offers a coherent overview of seemingly disparate realities on a geographically and historically sprawling canvas. The book is a work of literary non-fiction, drawing on a range of sources: literary works and criticism, theoretical research, empirical studies and artworks. Of its very nature, the book enacts an extensive cultural critique. After establishing a cross-disciplinary foundation for sense of place, the book describes its relationship to identity with reference to such terms as attachment, dispossession, reclamation and representation. It shows how a hopeful narrative for planet stewardship can be developed by the uptake of indigenous and traditional discourses of place. It concludes with the envisioning of a place-conscious curriculum, and ways in which an activist agenda might be pursued in the Anthropocene. Terry Locke has written a book that will resonate for many readers internationally. It brings together environmental concerns; issues of identity, place and space; and the role of education in a fast-changing world. All this is imbued with Terrys customary incisiveness, wit and a literary sensibility that makes Sense of Place an enjoyable as well as instructive read. This book is highly recommended for students, teachers, lecturers and a more general public interested in finding their own place, stability and wellbeing amid current social, climatic and political uncertainties. Richard Andrews, Emeritus Professor of Language Education, University of Edinburgh An intriguing mixture of memoir, poetry and scholarship, this book opens up the crucial issue of place and its complicated significance in an increasingly vulnerable lifeworld. Bringing together place consciousness, lineage, the arts, activism, and climate change, it asks important questions about where we live and how we live, and demonstrates why it matters, now more than ever, to attend to indigenous wisdoms and knowledges, in revisioning curriculum for a more attuned, integrated and harmonious future. Emeritus Professor Bill Green, Charles Sturt University.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 17, 2023).
Series Cultural studies and transdisciplinarity in education ; v. 17.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Looking Back to Look Forward
1.2 Another Book on Sense of Place?
1.3 Coming to Know
1.3.1 Knowledge Mediated by Discourse
1.3.2 Perceptual Intuition
1.4 What Lies Ahead
References
Chapter 2: Theorising Sense of Place
2.1 Place and Space
2.2 Sense of Place
2.2.1 De-legitimating Place
2.2.2 Understanding Sense of Place
2.3 Spirit of Place
2.4 Placelessness
2.4.1 Investment with Meaning and Value
2.4.2 The Material Physicality of Place
References

Chapter 3: Sense of Place and Identity
3.1 Identity as the Sense of Who I Am
3.2 Approaching Identity
3.3 Synecdoche
3.4 Synecdoche as Verb
3.5 Becoming Places
3.5.1 Places in Themselves
3.5.2 Endowing Significance
3.5.3 Impediments to Self-Identification with Place
3.6 Dispossession
3.6.1 Not-So-Merry England
3.6.2 Scotland
3.6.3 More on Discursive Power
3.7 Sense of Place and Wellness
3.8 Re-membering Sense of Place
3.8.1 The Clearances Revisited
References
Chapter 4: Indigeneity and Sense of Place
4.1 The Piktukowaq of Nova Scotia

4.2 Indigeneity
4.3 Australia
4.3.1 The Mithaka People as Synecdoche
4.4 Canada
4.5 The United States
References
Chapter 5: Decolonising Place
5.1 The Colonisation Project
5.1.1 Another Synecdoche: Bandon, Cork
5.2 Sovereign Power
5.3 Discourse
5.3.1 The Wild
5.3.2 A Brief Digression on the Word "Nature"
5.3.3 The Great Chain of Being
5.4 Decolonisation
5.4.1 Breaking the Chain
5.4.2 Unsettled Narratives and the Potential for Hybrid Identity
5.4.3 A Personal Digression
5.4.4 Decolonising Naming
References

Chapter 6: Locating Sense of Place in Literary Studies
6.1 Figurative Language
6.2 The Place of Rocks
6.2.1 Personification
6.3 Resetting Setting
6.3.1 Epic
6.3.2 Theatre
6.3.3 Prose Fiction
6.3.4 Bakhtin: A Digression on the Chronotope
6.4 Travellers' Tales
6.5 Poetry
6.5.1 Ecopoetry
6.6 Ecocriticism
References
Chapter 7: The Problematics of Representing Sense of Place
7.1 Homo Symbolicum
7.2 Constructing Landscapes in Paint
7.2.1 An Etymological Digression
7.2.2 Landscape in Van Diemen's Land

7.2.3 The Visual as Deepening Connection to Place
7.2.4 Decolonising Landscape
7.3 Embodying Place in Dance
7.4 Enhancing Sense of Place Through Music
7.4.1 Musical Expression as Generating/Communicating a Sense of Place
7.4.2 Connecting with the Natural World Through Music
7.5 Can Nature Represent Herself?
References
Chapter 8: Locating Sense of Place in the School Curriculum
8.1 Some Reflections on Curriculum
8.1.1 The Knowledge Society: A Diversion
8.1.2 Critical Pedagogy
8.2 A Place-Conscious Curriculum
8.2.1 The Perceptual Dimension

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