- Title Pages
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Advancing Urbanization
- 2 Sustainable Cities
- 3 Four Asian Tigers
- 4 Cities as Opportunities
- 5 Critical Environmental Education
- 6 Environmental Justice
- 7 Sense of Place
- 8 Climate Change Education
- 9 Community Assets
- 10 Trust and Collaborative Governance
- 11 Environmental Governance
- 12 Nonformal Educational Settings
- 13 Community Environmental Education
- 14 School Partnerships
- 15 Sustainable Campuses
- 16 Early Childhood
- 17 Positive Youth Development
- 18 Adult Education
- 19 Intergenerational Education
- 20 Inclusive Education
- 21 Educator Professional Development
- 22 Cities as Classrooms
- 23 Environmental Arts
- 24 Adventure Education
- 25 Urban Agriculture
- 26 Ecological Restoration
- 27 Green Infrastructure
- 28 Urban Digital Storytelling
- 29 Participatory Urban Planning
- 30 Educational Trends
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
Sense of Place
Sense of Place
- Chapter:
- (p.68) 7 Sense of Place
- Source:
- Urban Environmental Education Review
- Author(s):
Jennifer D. Adams
David A. Greenwood
Mitchell Thomashow
Alex Russ
, Alex Russ, Marianne E. Krasny- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter considers the concept of sense of place, focusing on how urban environmental education can help residents to strengthen their attachment to urban communities or entire cities and to view urban places as ecologically valuable. Sense of place—the way we perceive places such as streets, communities, cities, or ecoregions—influences our well-being, how we describe and interact with a place, what we value in a place, our respect for ecosystems and other species, how we perceive the affordances of a place, our desire to build more sustainable and just urban communities, and how we choose to improve cities. Our sense of place also reflects our historical and experiential knowledge of a place and helps us imagine its more sustainable future. The chapter offers examples of activities to help readers construct field explorations that evoke, leverage, or influence sense of place, including social construction of place meanings and developing an ecological identity.
Keywords: place, cities, urban environmental education, urban places, place meaning, ecological identity
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- Title Pages
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Advancing Urbanization
- 2 Sustainable Cities
- 3 Four Asian Tigers
- 4 Cities as Opportunities
- 5 Critical Environmental Education
- 6 Environmental Justice
- 7 Sense of Place
- 8 Climate Change Education
- 9 Community Assets
- 10 Trust and Collaborative Governance
- 11 Environmental Governance
- 12 Nonformal Educational Settings
- 13 Community Environmental Education
- 14 School Partnerships
- 15 Sustainable Campuses
- 16 Early Childhood
- 17 Positive Youth Development
- 18 Adult Education
- 19 Intergenerational Education
- 20 Inclusive Education
- 21 Educator Professional Development
- 22 Cities as Classrooms
- 23 Environmental Arts
- 24 Adventure Education
- 25 Urban Agriculture
- 26 Ecological Restoration
- 27 Green Infrastructure
- 28 Urban Digital Storytelling
- 29 Participatory Urban Planning
- 30 Educational Trends
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index