David A. Gruenewald — The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place

11 published claims from this book.

• A critical pedagogy of place merges localized action with geography-aware critical pedagogy.
• Activist commitment stems from positive place bonding, not exposure to degradation.
• Decolonization and reinhabitation become twin mutually-implied goals of place pedagogy.
• Eco-justice joins ecological and cultural critique in four linked commitments.
• Education should both serve the well-being of actual places and confront dominant cultural assumptions.
• Environmental crisis cannot be resolved without social justice.
• Literacy of words and literacy of world-experience reinforce one another.
• Place-based and critical pedagogies split along rural-ecological versus urban-social lines.
• Place-based education rejects generic models in favor of locale-specific approaches.
• Students remember one another when experience is linked to academics
• The perceived locus of environmental care shifts with social and geographical position.