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This learning module presents a variety of ways to consider the role of walking as environmental methodology in courses with existing fieldwork components. Walking is a mobile practice and form of dwelling. The footprint is a powerful metaphor and narrative device expressing the lived scale and pace of the human body, including the accumulation of incremental personal stories into public histories (“one step at a time,” “one foot in front of the other”). Footprints also form the basis for human conceptions of empathy (“being in someone else’s shoes,” “following in someone’s footsteps”) and place-based environmental impacts (ecological footprint, hydroregion), both of which are integral to public discourse in a pluralistic society. A series of readings and walking-based activities will engage the human body and imagination through walking within the watershed (the land area into which rain falls and streams drain) in exploring connections between people, place and water.
Publication Date
6-13-2018
Subject
Walking; Watersheds
Document Type
Curricular Materials
Disciplines
Geography
DOI
10.31986/issn.2689-0690_rdw.oer.1005
Recommended Citation
Kitson, Jennifer L., "Watershed Walking: Experiential Tools for Connecting People, Place and Water" (2018). Open Educational Resources. 6.
https://rdw.rowan.edu/oer/6
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Comments
This learning module was developed as part of a 2017-2018 NEH Human Connections grant to Rowan University faculty titled Cultivating the Environmental Humanities.
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