Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Place-Based Education: the Community as Partner
Department
Liberal Studies Department
College
Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Date Range
2012-2013
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
Abstract
This paper considers the role of the city/community as homespace in the education process in an attempt to bring a particular place, the community of Muskegon, MI, into the classroom as a learning partner. My work in this area draws on both feminist and pragmatist commitments, informed by the work of Jane Addams, John Dewey and contemporary feminist and pragmatist thinkers. I am attempting to demonstrate the underlying commitment to particularities of location/place in pragmatist feminist theory and practice. This allows us to read Addams and Dewey in light of contemporary practice, and positions pragmatism and feminism as a resource for place-based education.
Conference Name
Feminist Pragmatism in Place
Conference Location
Dayton, Ohio
ScholarWorks Citation
Whipps, Judy D., "Place-Based Education: the Community as Partner" (2013). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 1007.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/1007
