PhD Student Profile
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Sam
Harrison
The
Moray House School of Education,
The University of Edinburgh,
St Leonard's Land (Rm G13),
Holyrood Road,
Edinburgh EH8 8JQ
Scotland, UK
 Email: sam.harrison@education.ed.ac.uk |
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Project Title: A Praxis of Place: A case study of place-based education in the outdoors
Supervisors:
Dr Robbie
Nicol and Professor
Morwenna Griffiths
Research
topic:
Using
an action research approach, I will be working
with a group of adults returning to the same hill-based
venue in Argyll over a period of 9 months. We will
be looking at the various different elements of
that place - ecology, culture, geography, through work and experiential activities.
From this i will develop a case study of place-based
education, embracing various different epistemologies
(e.g. scientific, phenomenological), and looking
at the way in which the group and the venue interact
to create a sense of the place. I will at the same
time be using this study to critically evaluate
some of the theory on place, and environmental
education.
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