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Caring for Place in Science, Academia, and at Home
Blanchard, Paulette L
Blanchard, Paulette L
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Place mentorship consists of embodied experiences. It is through looking at Indigenous geographies of place we can see clearly how relationships, responsibilities, and reciprocity are learned from and within landscapes, waterscapes, and other places. Through place we learn how to be and coexist respectfully in reciprocal relationships. Place is more than a location site for human interactions, but an active agent in building epistemologies, ontologies, and cosmologies, combined with the spiritual and metaphysical that inform, teach, and demand our moral behaviors in ways that are emphasized in relationships, responsibilities and reciprocity manifesting in place mentoring. Place as mentor is a theory that suggests place educates and informs humans how to be good relatives through actions and interactions, observations, and experiences. Through looking at mentoring in education, mentoring from community, mentoring in activism, and mentoring from place itself, this paper speaks to the importance and influences of mentoring to care for place, the value and purpose of education, and to the critical importance of teaching care for place ethics to Indigenous youth and to non-Native mainstream society.
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2022-08-31
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University of Kansas
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Geography, Native American studies, Educational philosophy, Indigenous Feminism, Indigenous Geography, Indigenous science, place based education, place education