Reading and Writing Place

Connecting Rural Schools and Communities

Erika L. Bass, Amy Price Azano

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781793638366
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Curricula

In Reading and Writing Place: Connecting Rural Schools and Communities Erika L. Bass and Amy Price Azano suggest there is a need to add nuance to the ways we consider and engage with place in the classroom. Using a narrative writing project completed with two rural schools in two states, the authors provide an explanation of critical placed education and how students' explorations of place through writing led the authors to develop a concept of place (Big "P" and small "p" place). Students' explorations of place highlighted the how internalizations and externalizations of place impact identity formation and sense of belonging.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Making Place Matter
• 2 Reading and Writing Place
• 3 A Nuanced Theory of P/place
• 4 Rural Contexts Explored
• 5 Constructing a Critical Placed Unit
• 6 Externalizing Place
• 7 Internalizing Place
• 8 Exploring P-Place and p-place through Place Narratives
• 9 Place and Meaning-Making for Rural Students
• References
• Appendix A: Texts Used in Memoir Unit
• Appendix B: Research Methodology
• Index
• About the Authors