Teaching Toward Slow Hope: Place-based Learning in College and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Haynes, Douglas

 
9781421453903: Teaching Toward Slow Hope: Place-based Learning in College and Beyond
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ISBN 10 : 1421453908 ISBN 13 : 9781421453903
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Reimagining college as a space for connection, meaning, and collective resilience.

Teaching Toward Slow Hope reveals what happens when higher education dares to become something more than transactional. Rather than positioning education as a financial investment, this book reimagines college as a space where students cultivate the skills and relationships needed for "collaborative survival" in an increasingly unpredictable world. Against a backdrop of mental health crises, ecological instability, and structural inequality, Douglas Haynes traces how students and educators across the Upper Midwest are remaking college into a place for connection, meaning, and collective resilience.

Through on-the-ground reporting and interviews with students, Haynes describes the impacts of dynamic, place-based educational programs. He takes readers on a journey from urban gardens in Milwaukee to restored oak savannas in Madison, and from a community food hub in Kalamazoo to the shore of Lake Superior. At the heart of the programs he visits is a shared commitment to what Haynes calls practices of slow hope: deep listening, reciprocity, collaboration, and embodied learning.

Haynes evokes the experiences of students harvesting native seeds, cooking with local produce, gathering community histories, and learning to see their landscapes anew. Many of these students are first-generation or struggling with anxiety or affording college. From their experiences emerges a deeply human story of transformation based in place, community, and care. Teaching Toward Slow Hope offers educators, administrators, and anyone invested in the future of higher education a powerful new lens for thinking about what college is really for.

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À propos de l?auteur

Douglas Haynes is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He is the author of Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters and Last Word.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1421453908
ISBN 13 
9781421453903
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
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Personne responsable
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