Place-based Learning for the Plate: Hunting, Foraging and Fishing for Food (Environmental Discourses in Science Education (6))

This edited volume explores 21st century stories of hunting, foraging, and fishing for food as unique forms of place-based learning. Through the authors’ narratives, it reveals complex social and ecological relationships while readers sample the flavors of foraging in Portland, Oregon; feel some of what it’s like to grow up hunting and gathering as a person of Oglala Lakota and Shoshone-Bannock descent; track the immersive process of learning to communicate with rocky mountain elk; encounter a road-killed deer as a spontaneous source of local meat, and more. Other topics in the collection connect place, food, and learning to issues of identity, activism, spirituality, food movements, conservation, traditional and elder knowledge, and the ethics related to eating the more-than-human world. This volume will bring lively discussion to courses on place-based learning, food studies, environmental education, outdoor recreation, experiential education, holistic learning, human dimensions of natural resource management, sustainability, food systems, environmental ethics, and others. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Hunting, Foraging, and Fishing for Food as Place-Based Learning (Joel B. Pontius)....Pages 1-9 Urban Wild Foraging–Walk with Me, a One-Mile Radius (Dilafruz R. Williams)....Pages 11-24 In Pursuit of Elk (Joel B. Pontius)....Pages 25-36 Thanksgiving in Alabama: Deer Hunting Among Paradoxes in the Black Prairie (Abbie Gascho Landis, Andrew Gascho Landis)....Pages 37-53 Savouring the Free Lunch: Edible Activism and the Joy of Foraging (David Chang, Heesoon Bai)....Pages 55-72 Teachings from the Land of my Ancestors: Knowing Places as a Gatherer, Hunter, Fisher and Ecologist (Sammy L. Matsaw)....Pages 73-85 Catch of the Day (Alison Laurie Neilson, Rita São Marcos)....Pages 87-104 Gleaning White-Tailed Deer (James Farmer)....Pages 105-112 My Father’s Place in the Mountains: An Education Elsewhere (Amy Price Azano)....Pages 113-132 Gathering Sap (Jonathon W. Schramm)....Pages 133-139 Towards a Marine Socio-ecology of Learning in the South West of England (Alun Morgan, Emma Sheehan, Adam Rees, Amy Cartwright)....Pages 141-167 A Suspension of Reason in the Face of Food Harvest: Finding Meaning in the Act of Conforming (Michael Mueller)....Pages 169-198 Back Matter ....Pages 199-201