Abstract
This chapter argues that we might consider ideas emerging from queer theory to make discussions of place within our pedagogical practice strange—to queer them. While many scholars stress places external to the classroom as sites for connecting to community and the larger world around us, this chapter argues that it is not necessary to leave the classroom to coherently discuss and respect place in a globalized world, particularly in the social sciences. This makes the classroom a specific site, with cultural artifacts and symbolic values within it, worthy of investigation, refusing to accept the binary separation of the “school” or “university” and the “community” and, finally, the “globe” of which they are a part
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- 1.
See Gruenewald, “The Best of Both Worlds.”
- 2.
See, for example, Penney, After Queer Theory.
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Gruenewald, “The Best of Both Worlds,” 7.
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For an example that does not fail to connect PBE to social transformation, see Sobel, Beyond Ecophobia.
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Gruenewald, “The Best of Both Worlds,” 9.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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For example, see hooks, Teaching to Transgress.
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Gruenewald, “The Best of Both Worlds,” 9.
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See Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy.; or Marx and Engels, The German Ideology, 78.
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See, for example, Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom.
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Sobel, Beyond Ecophobia.
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What “living well” actually constitutes is another aspect that critical pedagogies of place can take up.
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For example, see Mills, The Sociological Imagination.
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Readers can see Deric Shannon’s chapter about teaching on the farm (in this collection) for more info on the micro-macro link in sociology.
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Gruenewald, “The Best of Both Worlds,” 8.
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Dewey, Democracy and Education, 10.
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For more on class consciousness, readers can look into Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness.
- 20.
Gruenewald, “The Best of Both Worlds.”
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Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 1892/2007).
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Willis, A.S. (2017). Queering Place: Using the Classroom to Describe the World. In: Shannon, D., Galle, J. (eds) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy and Place-Based Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50621-0_10
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