"Neighborhoods, Communities, and Teaching Writing"

"Neighborhoods, Communities, and Teaching Writing"

Derek Owens

Associate Professor of English & Director of the Writing Center
St. John's University, Queens, New York City

Links

Site featuring writing by Boston College students, created by Tim Lindgren

www.timlindgren.org/place-writing/

grad student paper on place-based pedagogy

www.getvegan.com/ee.htm

Duke's Center for Documentary Studies

cds.aas.duke.edu/

University Leaders for a Sustainable Future

www.ulsf.org/

Montana Heritage Project

www.edheritage.org/articles/senseofplace.htm

Fieldworking

www.fieldworking.com/home.html

Pedagogy of Place Guide

www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/publications/ docs/Pedagogy-of-Place.pdf

UKY's Civic Professionalism Initiative

www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/research/civprof.html

Scholastic site on Neighborhood Folklore

teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/folklore_your.htm

Watch out! a paper on a neighborhood available through one of those term-papers-for-sale sites

www.academon.com/lib/paper/8978.html

Sample essays on neighborhoods (scroll down to "New South Neighborhoods")

www.cmhpf.org/essays/essays.html#neigh

Sources

An eclectic bunch of titles, mostly by writers with interests in planning, sustainability, and place-based research or pedagogy.

Abbott, Philip. Seeking Many Inventions: The Idea of Community in America. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1987.

Aberley, Doug, ed. Futures By Design: The Practice of Ecological Planning. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 1994.

Beatley, Timothy, and Kristy Manning. The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community. Washington DC: Island P, 1997.

Berry, Wendell. “The Futility of Global Thinking.” Learning to Listen to the Land. Ed. Bill Willers. Washington DC: Island P, 1991: 150-156.

---. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. NY: Avon Books, 1977.

Blitz, Michael, and C. Mark Hurlbert. Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violent Age. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1998.

Bowers, C.A. Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture: Rethinking Moral Education, Creativity, Intelligence, and Other Modern Orthodoxies. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1995.

---. Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis: Toward Deep Changes. Albany: SUNY P, 1993.

Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. NY: Princeton Architectural P, 1993.

---. “A Short History of Twentieth Century New Towns.” Sustainable Communities. Ed. Sim Van der Ryn. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1986: 189-234.

Cushman, Ellen. The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1988.

Daly, Herman E., and John B. Cobb, Jr., with contributions by Clifford W. Cobb. For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. Boston: Beacon P, 1989.

Daly, Herman E., and Kenneth N. Townsend, eds. Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1993.

Doheny-Farina, Stephen. The Wired Neighborhood. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1996.

Downing, David B., Claude Mark Hurlbert, and Paula Mathieu, eds. Beyond English Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook & Heinemann, 2002.

Engwicht, David. Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living with Less Traffic. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 1993.

Gallagher, Winifred. The Power of Place: How our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions. NY: Poseidon P, 1993.

Greider, William. One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1995.

Hiss, Tony. The Experience of Place. NY: Vintage, 1990.

Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape. NY: Touchstone, 1993.

Mander, Jerry, and Edward Goldsmith, eds. The Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn Toward the Local. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1996.

Orr, David W. Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect. Washington DC: Island P, 1994.

---. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1992.

O'Sullivan, Edmund. Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21^st Century. London: Zed Books, 1999.

Owens, Derek. Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation. NCTE P, 2001.

Relph, E. Place and Placelessness. London: Pion Ltd, 1976.

Roseland, Mark, ed. Eco-City Dimensions: Healthy Communities Healthy Planet. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

Ritzer, George. The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life. Rev. ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge P, 1996.

Trainer, Ted. The Conserver Society: Alternatives for Sustainability. London: Zed Books, 1995.

Weisser, Christian R., and Sidney I. Dobrin, eds. Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 2001.

Yagelski, Robert. Literacy Matters: Writing and Reading the Social Self. NY: Teachers College, 2000.

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