Bibliographies

PLACE BASED ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

If you are interested in diverse educational approaches to teaching place, see:
David Orr, Ecological Literacy  (SUNY Albany)
and my own book, Mitchell Thomashow, Ecological Identity (The MIT Press)

Both books deal with place based environmental education as the foundation of the learning process. Orr deals more with institutional transformation. I deal with personal transformation. Both books are filled with practical, tangible, hands-on teaching and living suggestions.

For ideas about working with childhood experience of place, see
David Sobel, Children's Special Places (Zephyr Press)
Louise Chawla, In the First Country of Places (SUNY Albany)
Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble, The Geography of Childhood (Beacon)
Edith Cobb, The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood (Columbia University
Press)
Roger Hart, Children's Participation (Earthscan)

For discussion about community and place and its implications for political education, see:
Daniel Kemmis, Community and the Politics of Place (University of Oklahoma Press)
Arne Naess and David Rothenberg, Ecology, Community, and Lifestyle (Cambridge University Press)
and Chapter Three, "Ecological Identity and the Common" of Ecological Identity

For interesting discussions of landscape, place, and environmental perception (with ramifications for education in each case), see:
Alexander Wilson, The Culture of Nature (Blackwell)
Yi-Fu Tuan, Topophilia (Prentice-Hall)
E.N. Anderson, Ecologies of the Heart (Oxford)

For a mapping perspective, see:
Doug Aberley, ed., Boundaries of Home (New Society Publishers)

On how electronic media impacts perceptions of place, see
Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place (Oxford)

Two beautiful books about living in place:
Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put (Beacon)
Linda Hogan, Dwellings (Norton)

Finally, everything about
Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild (North Point) is relevant to place based education.

And don't forget the following back issues of Orion:
Spring, 1994 (Mapping Our Earthly Bonds)
Spring, 1995 (The Place Where You Live)

Or the bible of place-based, community design,
Christopher Alexander, et. al., A Pattern Language (Oxford)

Some of my editions may be a little old and the publishers may have changed.