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The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place.

Taking the position that “critical pedagogy” and “place-based education” are mutually supportive educational traditions, this authorargues for a conscious synthesis that blends the two discourses intoa critical pedagogy of place. An analysis of critical pedagogy is pre-sented that emphasizes the spatial aspects of social experience. Thisexamination also asserts the general absence of ecological thinkingdemonstrated in critical social analysis concerned exclusively withhuman relationships. Next, a discussion of ecological place-based ed-ucation is offered. Finally, a critical pedagogy of place is defined. Thispedagogy seeks the twin objectives of decolonization and “reinhab-itation” through synthesizing critical and place-based approaches. Acritical pedagogy of place challenges all educators to reflect on therelationship between the kind of education they pursue and the kind of places we inhabit and leave behind for future generations.