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Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities

Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities 238 ISLE destroy it" (Allister 3), these questions matter urgently. So does study- ing and teaching environmental literature with an eye to the ecological functionality of the models of masculinity promoted by various texts. Ecocritical essays by John Tallmadge, Scott Slovic, and Patrick Murphy begin to think this through in relation to specific authors and works. Other essays in a more personal vein by David Copeland Morris, Rick Fairbanks, Barton Sutter, James Barilla, Timothy Young, and O. Alan Weltzien testify to the epiphanies and initiations available to young men in the wild and might be studied for what they say about the functionality of developing a passionate connection to nature in one's youth. Then there is a group of writings—Allister's interview with Scott Russell Sanders and pieces by Julia Martin, Thomas R. Smith, and Lilace Mellin Guignard—that address how boys are socialized and that recognize that it is possible, even essential, in today's world to raise boys who are kind, compassionate, imaginative, and wise in their relationship to nature. Perhaps the most salient point to emerge from Eco-Man, made by several of the authors, is that there is great ecological value in the tradi- tional masculine roles of provider http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Oxford University Press

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238 ISLE destroy it" (Allister 3), these questions matter urgently. So does study- ing and teaching environmental literature with an eye to the ecological functionality of the models of masculinity promoted by various texts. Ecocritical essays by John Tallmadge, Scott Slovic, and Patrick Murphy begin to think this through in relation to specific authors and works. Other essays in a more personal vein by David Copeland Morris, Rick Fairbanks, Barton Sutter, James Barilla, Timothy Young, and O. Alan Weltzien testify to the epiphanies and initiations available to young men in the wild and might be studied for what they say about the functionality of developing a passionate connection to nature in one's youth. Then there is a group of writings—Allister's interview with Scott Russell Sanders and pieces by Julia Martin, Thomas R. Smith, and Lilace Mellin Guignard—that address how boys are socialized and that recognize that it is possible, even essential, in today's world to raise boys who are kind, compassionate, imaginative, and wise in their relationship to nature. Perhaps the most salient point to emerge from Eco-Man, made by several of the authors, is that there is great ecological value in the tradi- tional masculine roles of provider

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ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment – Oxford University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2006

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