Teaching about Place: Learning from the Land

by Laird Christensen

The sixteen essays in this anthology describe the practice of teaching about place, with the goal of inspiring educators as well as other readers to discover the value of close investigation of their own places. The contributors discuss places from the desert river canyons of the American West, to the bayous of Texas, to wildlife refuges on the Atlantic Coast, to New England's forests and river, and back to the wildland-urban interface in suburban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874177324
• ISBN13: 9780874177329
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.3"