Creating a digital learning ecosystem to facilitate authentic place-based learning and international collaboration – a coastal case study

Authentic, place-based experiential learning is essential for students of ecology, whilst an understanding of broader human impacts is necessary for effective conservation efforts. Creating future environmental leaders requires fostering such understanding whilst building transferable skills in collaboration, communication and cultural competence. Mobile technologies and collaborative digital tools can connect students across broad geographic locations, allowing them to share experiences and build a common understanding of global environmental challenges. Within this concise paper, we report on the initial stages and proposed next steps in building a learning ecosystem, consisting of a digital platform and embedded tools, to facilitate undergraduate learning in coastal ecology across universities in Australia, Hong Kong and South Africa. Using here a framework guided by design-based research (DBR), we discuss the design and development of these digital tools in context, and their proposed integration into upper undergraduate science curricula across locations.

Pearse Hutchinson’s Ecopoetics on Spain (1950s-1960s)

The aim of this article is to examine Pearse Hutchinson’s critical attitude towards the tourist development of Spain in the 1960s and 1970s through his poetic production. Hutchinson’s poetic analysis of Spanish mass tourism will be divided into two separate phases of development and this article will pay particular attention to the second one, which was developed during his second sojourn in the country in the 1960s and 1970s. It will analyse how, during this period, Hutchinson’s eco-poetics reveals an illuminating approach to the tourist industry, and how the latter intended to put a friendly face on a repressive military dictatorship. Tourism as a “mechanism of power” (Crumbaugh, Destination Dictatorship 20) was necessary for the regime in order to assure its authority. Hutchinson’s poetry was able to reproduce a lament on the deleterious effects on the landscape. However, it will be seen how the poet avoids an idealisation of nature or the search of a pristine habitat. Certainly, in some cases, his poetry lampoons modern tourists’ nostalgic search for an authentic place.

Constructing “Empty” Places: Discourses and Place Materiality in the Wake of Disruption

Places are often thought of as “scenes” upon which social life takes place. Such a static place-conception lends itself to a particular instrumental and simplistic way of thinking about places. Instead, this paper seeks to illustrate that places are complex and relationally defined by multiple actors, human as well as non-human. The burning down of the Danish seaside hotel Svinkløv Badehotel is used as a lens through which such place complexity is understood. The paper presents a theoretical scaffolding for understanding how Svinkløv Badehotel became articulated as an authentic place in the wake of the dramatic event. Through a combined analysis of place materiality and public media representation, an account is given of how a disruptive event can work as a productive lens for understanding places and thus illustrate the analytical point of the paper: that places are never “empty,” but are configured by multiple human as well as non-human actors.

KEINDAHAN CURUG JENGGALA DI BANYUMAS JAWA TENGAH

The Jenggala waterfall in Banyumas Central Java has authentic place and the beauty nature to pamper tourist who visit. Especially this place has a spiritual culture area. Propare management and adequate facilities also attracts the interest of tourist to visit this Jenggala waterfall in Banyumas, Central Java.

KEINDAHAN CURUG JENGGALA DI BANYUMAS JAWA TENGAH

The Jenggala waterfall in Banyumas Central Java has authentic place and the beauty nature to pamper tourist who visit. Especially this place has a spiritual culture area. Propare management and adequate facilities also attracts the interest of tourist to visit this Jenggala waterfall in Banyumas, Central Java.

Re-maintaining Authentic Place Identity through Continuity: Sipiso-Piso, North Sumatera

The current research observed continuity principle in maintaining place identity of Sipiso-Piso, North Sumatera, toward supporting Toba Caldera as National Strategic Tourism Area Priority. Striving to develop geo-tourism, Toba Caldera would face environmental and social risks arising instead of generating quality of life. A mix-used approach was conducted to identify respondents' perceptions that indicates satisfying experiences. The result showed that since Sipiso-Piso merely offers the natural resources as the main attraction, the integrated planning related to strategic management then is crucial due to the increasing number of tourists and demands from several tourists’ parties.eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v3i8.1399

Connecting Text

This chapter discusses the act of connecting text. The benefit of a connected text is not as simple as merely 'having an audience'. The act of choice in sending something out into the world, under one's own name, and of one's own creation is a singularly autonomous act. This assertion of self is not uncommon for students in a school classroom, in fact it is an important part of what makes the school such a real and authentic place for students and teachers alike, but the formalisation of this in text is unique. The affordances of this self-assertion are often immediately clear. The text, which frequently represents the most tangible product of the classroom experience for students, extends their voice. The value they place on it is reinforced by the fact that they have the power to publish the text to the world.

Introduction to Volume 6

The discussion in the Introduction to Volume 6 considers the papers composed between 1960-1963 as Winnicott’s consolidation of his seminal views, elaborated over his professional lifetime: the ever present motif of the parent-infant relationship and the evolution of dependency towards independence, the nature of aggression and its role in living with a sense of being real, the necessity for that way of living to be isolated and yet relating to others with concern from an authentic place within one’s self, and what constitutes health. He was no longer working in the public health service but was a major contributor on the national and international psychoanalytic scene. The author contests that the writings of this period must be understood in the light of his ongoing internal relationship with Melanie Klein, who died at the beginning of this period.