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Publication Date: 2024
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Getting There from Here: Mapping as a Process for Relationship Renewal
Jennifer MacDonald
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, v26 p82-101 2024
Inspired to guide students toward more ethical relationships with the living world, this article looks at maps as a common tool used in outdoor environmental education. I argue that maps are tools laden with European Enlightenment ideologies and reinforce a type of human being who has lost their way within an ecological web. To balance these understandings, I offer a process of mapping that was shaped alongside students during multi-day outdoor learning experiences. Through sharing student-generated examples, I offer insights for how a more interpretive means of mapping (and unmapping) through experience can support students to situate themselves within place-based ecologies as a form of relationship renewal.
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Maps, Visual Aids, Place Based Education
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education. Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. Fax: 807-346-7771; e-mail: cjee@lakeheadu.ca; Web site: http://cjee.lakeheadu.ca
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