Place-Based Writing in Action

Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Place-Based Writing: Getting Authentic by Getting Out of the Classroom

Part I: Meaningful Encounters with the Great Outdoors

Chapter 2: Writing the Ecology of the Ozarks

Chapter 3: Exploring Interconnections with the Living World through Nature Journaling

Chapter 4: Mapping through Justice, through Padlet, and through the World

Chapter 5: Observing Nature, Observing Language: Using Nature to Teach Rhetorical Grammar

Part II: Finding the Intersection Between Community, History, and Self

Chapter 6: Teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre (and Other Hidden Histories) Using Poetry, Photography, and Place

Chapter 7: The Sustainable Resource Project: Writing Toward Agency

Chapter 8: Where do Mountain Goats Sleep? Bringing Place-Based Collaborative Journaling Out of the Woods and into (and Beyond) the Classroom

Chapter 9: Making Connections to the Past: Using Place-Based Writing to Bring History to Life

Part III: Writing about Art and Writing as Art

Chapter 10: Finding Your Truth: Reimagining School Spaces for Student Writing and Publication Through Interactive Public Art

Chapter 11: Using Memory as an Activator for Exploration and Creation

Chapter 12: Combining Voices: Merging Art and Writing through Place-Based Principles

Part IV: Using Digital Tools to Bring the Outside World Into the Classroom

Chapter 13: Into the Metaverse: Using Virtual Reality as a Site for Place-Based Writing

Chapter 14: Stories of Our Community: Podcasting for Place-Based Inquiry

Chapter 15: Touring the Place You Know Best: Virtual Tours as a Way to Teach Narrative, Argument, and Research Writing