Senses of Place

Ecology and place-conscious learning Ecological approaches to place and place-conscious education are  relevant when we engage in teaching for climate  change transformation. As a teacher educator, I am faced with  ecological precarity whenever I discuss global dilemmas of climate change and  unsustainability in subject teaching with teacher students.   To address climate change as an educational challenge, teachers need professional tools that contribute to building hope, collaboration, and support. Based on collaborative work and research with teachers in primary schools and kindergartens in the post-industrial community of Tinn and Rjukan in Norway, I reflect on experiences of and develop new thinking on nested networks, interdependencies, and interconnections arising from working reciprocally with place in teaching practices. Place is theorised as a situation where nature and culture co-produce each other, where place is habitat and a way to teach and learn,...