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Place-based Learning for the Plate

Hunting, Foraging and Fishing for Food

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Editors:
  1. Joel B. Pontius

    1. Sustainability and Environmental Education Department, Goshen College, Goshen, USA

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  2. Michael P. Mueller

    1. College of Education, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, USA

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  3. David Greenwood

    1. Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

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  • Explores a Broad Spectrum of Educational Landscapes
  • Highlights the Importance of Ecological Awareness
  • Brings Together Students Experiences in Place-Specific Learning

Part of the book series: Environmental Discourses in Science Education (EDSE, volume 6)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Hunting, Foraging, and Fishing for Food as Place-Based Learning

    • Joel B. Pontius
    Pages 1-9

  3. Urban Wild Foraging–Walk with Me, a One-Mile Radius

    • Dilafruz R. Williams
    Pages 11-24

  4. In Pursuit of Elk

    • Joel B. Pontius
    Pages 25-36

  5. Thanksgiving in Alabama: Deer Hunting Among Paradoxes in the Black Prairie

    • Abbie Gascho Landis, Andrew Gascho Landis
    Pages 37-53

  6. Savouring the Free Lunch: Edible Activism and the Joy of Foraging

    • David Chang, Heesoon Bai
    Pages 55-72

  7. Teachings from the Land of my Ancestors: Knowing Places as a Gatherer, Hunter, Fisher and Ecologist

    • Sammy L. Matsaw
    Pages 73-85

  8. Catch of the Day

    • Alison Laurie Neilson, Rita São Marcos
    Pages 87-104

  9. Gleaning White-Tailed Deer

    • James Farmer
    Pages 105-112

  10. My Father’s Place in the Mountains: An Education Elsewhere

    • Amy Price Azano
    Pages 113-132

  11. Gathering Sap

    • Jonathon W. Schramm
    Pages 133-139

  12. Towards a Marine Socio-ecology of Learning in the South West of England

    • Alun Morgan, Emma Sheehan, Adam Rees, Amy Cartwright
    Pages 141-167

  13. A Suspension of Reason in the Face of Food Harvest: Finding Meaning in the Act of Conforming

    • Michael Mueller
    Pages 169-198

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 199-201
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About this book

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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sustainability and Environmental Education Department, Goshen College, Goshen, USA

    Joel B. Pontius

  • College of Education, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, USA

    Michael P. Mueller

  • Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

    David Greenwood

About the editors

Joel Pontius, PhD, is a sustainability and environmental education professor at Goshen College’s Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center where he directs the Sustainability Leadership Semester. His writing, teaching, and advocacy are informed by practices of foraging, gleaning, hunting, and fishing for food.


Michael Mueller, PhD, is a professor of secondary education with expertise in environmental and science education in the College of Education at University of Alaska, Anchorage. His philosophy focuses on how privileged cultural thinking frames our relationships with others, including nonhuman species and physical environments. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Cultural Studies of Science Education.


David Greenwood, PhD, is Professor and Canada Research Chair of Environmental Education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. His scholarship, teaching, and activism revolve around place-based, environmental, sustainability, and holistic education. 


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