Overview
- Explores how young people are introduced to ‘unfamiliar landscapes’
- Explains how ‘unfamiliarity’ is encountered, experienced and constructed
- Reflects on presupposed relationships between young people and landscapes
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Unfamiliar Outdoors: Producing Unfamiliarity Through Outdoor Education
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The Unfamiliar Past: Negotiating Unfamiliarity in Heritage Spaces
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Embodying Difference in Unfamiliar Landscapes
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Being Well, and Being Unfamiliar
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Keywords
- Children and young people
- Outdoor, Environmental and Heritage Education
- Race and Ethnicity
- Wellbeing
- Digital
- unfamiliar landscapes
- nature and wellbeing
- digital technologies and outdoor environments
- outdoor learning and childhood studies
- ecopedagogic guardians
- Placelessness and dis-ease
- youth-led learning
- outdoor learning
About this book
This book critically interrogates how young people are introduced to landscapes through environmental education, outdoor recreation, and youth-led learning, drawing on diverse examples of green, blue, outdoor, or natural landscapes. Understanding the relationships between young people and unfamiliar landscapes is vital for young people’s current and future education and wellbeing, but how landscapes and young people are socially constructed as unfamiliar is controversial and contested. Young people are constructed as unfamiliar within certain landscapes along lines of race, gender or class: this book examines the cultures of outdoor learning that perpetuate exclusions and inclusions, and how unfamiliarity is encountered, experienced, constructed, and reproduced.
This interdisciplinary text, drawing on Human Geography, Education, Leisure and Heritage Studies, and Anthropology, challenges commonly-held assumptions about how and why young people are educated in unfamiliar landscapes. Practice is at the heart of this book, which features three ‘conversations with practitioners’ who draw on their personal and professional experiences. The chapters are organised into five themes: (1) The unfamiliar outdoors; (2) The unfamiliar past; (3) Embodying difference in unfamiliar landscapes; (4) Being well, and being unfamiliar; and (5) Digital and sonic encounters with unfamiliarity. Educational practitioners, researchers and students will find this book essential for taking forward more inclusive outdoor and youth-led education.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas Aneurin Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University.
Hannah Pitt is a Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University.
Ria Ann Dunkley is a Senior Lecturer in Geography, Sustainability and Environment at the School of Education, University of Glasgow.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Unfamiliar Landscapes
Book Subtitle: Young People and Diverse Outdoor Experiences
Editors: Thomas Aneurin Smith, Hannah Pitt, Ria Ann Dunkley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94460-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94459-9Published: 17 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94462-9Published: 18 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94460-5Published: 16 June 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 579
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Cultural Geography, Social Anthropology, Environmental and Sustainability Education