Creative Education of Place Research

Our collaborative research paper has been published. Norquay, N., & Garramone, P. (2016). The Old Durham Road Black Pioneer Settlement: Contested Place as an Invitation to Curriculum. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 13(2), 20-31. http://jcacs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jcacs/article/view/40249/36114

Last year I completed a research project entitled Unearthing Race, Place and Sustainability: Towards Decolonizing Geographies in Ontario. This research examines teaching environmental justice issues to undergraduate students. The aim is to “decolonize” sustainability in terms of how race and place are constructed in association with an eco-racial conflict in Priceville, Ontario. The initial findings were presented at the 2013 American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco and a comprehensive chapter entitled “Digging Where We Stand”: Rethinking Critical Place-Based Pedagogies for Sustainability With The More-Than-Human World, was published in 2015 in Richard Mitchell and Shannon Moore’s Planetary Praxis & Pedagogy: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Sustainability, by Sense Publishers.