Abstract

RAMOS DE ROBLES, Silvia Lizette  and  FERIA CUEVAS, Yolanda. The notion of a sense of place: an approach using narrative texts and photographs. Innov. educ. (Méx. DF) [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.71, pp.83-110. ISSN 1665-2673.

Every human experience happens in places and is connected to them. Inhabited places are considered primary artifacts of culture and resources with high didactic potential. Based on these foundations, the purpose of this paper was to identify experiences through which a group of postgraduate students construct their sense of place: sensations of attachment and belonging to places. The theoretical/methodological approach uses a sociocultural perspective in addition to discourse and image analysis in order to examine narratives and photographs created by the students. The results demonstrate that the construction of the sense of place is a complex process based on the description of components and physical characteristics of places, as well as on the interactions, feelings, sensorial perceptions and effects of temporality felt in them. The study shows the didactic wealth of the concept of the sense of place and its power in raising awareness about the ways in which we inhabit the earth.

Keywords : Discourse analysis; place-based education; place-conscious education; sense of place; sociocultural perspective.