Conclusion: Mapping for a Better World
In this chapter DeWitt and Langran look at the value of purposeful, authentic learning that comes with well-designed critical place-based inquiry. While this pedagogy has the potential to be deeply meaningful, the design process must also take into accoun
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Navigating Place-Based Learning
Elizabeth Langran · Janine DeWitt
Navigating Place-Based Learning Mapping for a Better World
Elizabeth Langran Marymount University Arlington, VA, USA
Janine DeWitt Marymount University Arlington, VA, USA
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To our students… Long may you roam
Foreword: Toward Mapping for a Better World
Yet, not “forward,” but backward in time, since to understand a place, we must consider it as a place in time: the logics of time—the chronological pasts that have constructed it: in other words, the Geologic Hydrologic Geomorphologic Climatologic Meteorologic Ecologic Paleologic Archaeologic Anthropologic and finally its current Sociologic phenomena, such as settlement patterns, routes along water: outward to and from it; its drainage patterns, interruptions, and their impact on habitats and human settlements, high and low elevations, and relationships to production, economics, and power. Therefore the maps that represent the preexisting and current conditions must be consulted in order to construct a “deep map.” The “deep map” provides the spatiotemporal context that allows for deeper reflection on the power and potential of change that is of course, inevitable. While the list of “logics” may seem irrelevant to the current sociological conditions, the knowing of those preexisting conditions compose the critical knowledge the powerful
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