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Publication Date: 2022-Dec
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Slippery Spaces and Changing Places: Investigating 'Sense of Place' with Year 9 Pupils in Stories about the Cambridgeshire Fens
Mellor, Joshua
Teaching History, n189 p38-45 Dec 2022
Confined to his home during lockdown in 2020, teacher Josh Mellor became eager to explore the history of the physical environment on his doorstep. After reading about different approaches to using environmental history in the classroom, Mellor decided to design an enquiry to explore the changing landscape of the Fens in Cambridgeshire from 1600 to the present day. Puzzled by the different ways in which history teachers have conceptualised 'sense of place' in the classroom, Mellor wanted to find out how ideas about 'sense of place' manifested themselves in his pupils' writing. Analysis of his pupils' stories of change in the Fens has led Mellor to create a nascent taxonomy of two different approaches to building pupils' 'sense of place'.
Descriptors: History Instruction, Place Based Education, Physical Environment, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, World History, Geographic Location, Environmental Education
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