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Our Neighborhood: A Place for Heightening Emotional Energy in Science Education

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A growing body of educational research suggests science studied in one’s neighborhood becomes a valuable venue for fostering not only students’ conceptual understanding but also a connection to their place. In this chapter, we discuss this research, as well as present authentic examples from our own case studies that provide further understanding of how place-based pedagogy affects students’ emotional energy in the science classroom. More specifically, we illustrate the (1) emotional connections that result from place-based experiences, (2) value students place on solidarity-building interactions, and (3) barriers to realizing the potential of place-based pedagogy in terms of fostering students’ engagement with the community. These understandings are supported and discussed in a manner that provides science teacher educators who are interested in enhancing emotional engagement through place-based instruction with practical applications and theoretical underpinnings that could enhance their own practice or research efforts.

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  1. Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY, USA

    Kristin Cook

  2. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

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  1. Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Alberto Bellocchi

  2. Department of Teaching and Learning College of Education, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA

    Cassie Quigley

  3. Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Kathrin Otrel-Cass

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Cook, K., Buck, G. (2017). Our Neighborhood: A Place for Heightening Emotional Energy in Science Education. In: Bellocchi, A., Quigley, C., Otrel-Cass, K. (eds) Exploring Emotions, Aesthetics and Wellbeing in Science Education Research. Cultural Studies of Science Education, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43353-0_8

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