Education as re-embedding: Stroud communiversity, walking the land and the enduring spell of the sensuous

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-68

  Cato, Molly Scott ^a   Myers, Jan ^a  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experiential learning; Phenomenology; Re embedding; Songlines; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ONTOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; PEDAGOGICAL METHOD; PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH; PHENOMENOLOGY; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM; SONGLINES; SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES; TEACHING EXPERIENCE;

EMBEDDINGS;

EID: 84856795187     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3010051     Document Type: Article

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