Tag Archives: place-based learning

Currently reading: “Carving space to learn for sustainable futures: A theory-informed adult education approach to teaching” by Holmqvist & Millenberg (2024)

This morning, I read the article “Carving space to learn for sustainable futures: A theory-informed adult education approach to teaching” by Holmqvist & Millenberg (2024) and it really resonated with me. They write that “education for sustainability is, by necessity, value-based, place-embedded and emancipatory, seeking to help learners develop a desire to connect – to ‘actively’ be in the world and shape it” and then present a “seed package” in which they propose an activity “meant to help learners realise or gauge the responsibilities and freedoms that we have as persons in the world”.

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Currently reading & thinking about “The best of both worlds: A critical pedagogy of place” (Gruenewald, 2003)

I am on the fringes of a course on “Integrating Sustainability Competences in the Curriculum” that my awesome colleague Steven Curtis is currently teaching, and he asked me to read an article about “A critical pedagogy of place” (Gruenewald, 2003) and moderate a discussion about it. Below, I am summarizing the article and adding some thoughts from a recent seminar that Laura Weitze gave here at LU.

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