Literacies in place: teaching environmental communications

edited by Barbara Comber and Helen Nixon and Jo-Anne Reid

Literacies in Place looks at the way students communicate knowledge when they build their learning around places and spaces that have meaning to them.

Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin is at once a vast system and a collection of unique and disparate localities. In these localities – by rivers, rocks, reserves and gardens – young learners can be found who are able to interpret signs of life, and threats to that life, supported by committed and risk-tolerant teachers.

This multi-authored book records the experiences and outcomes of place-based inquiry. Here, in their own places, Basin teachers and their partner researchers map out what an ‘eco-ethical’ approach might mean to learning, and to communicating understanding, in a networked world.

How to use the book (pdf)