Writing Suburban Citizenship ─ Place-Conscious Education and the Conundrum of Suburbia

Noting that more students live in suburban areas than other spaces, this volume proposes a place-conscious education to create participatory citizens in the suburbs, where place-conscious education has been absent and where connections with the region's peoples, environments, and history are more difficult to see. College and secondary writing teachers who are Teacher Consultants for the Nebraska Writing Project present eight classroom projects aimed at showing students how to use writing to examine the watershed, or natural environment and ecological realities, and the commonwealth, or cultural history, of suburban communities. The projects involve investigation of water, local landscape, history, work ethnographies, Native American literature, and other topics. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Robert E. Brooke is professor of English at the University of Nebraska and director of the Nebraska Writing Project. He is the author of Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing.