Phillips, L. (2015). How place can nourish language and literacy learning. Practical Literacy: The early and primary years, 20(2), 4-5.
Connection to place, geographically and culturally, can fuel meaningful literacy learning. Louise shares examples of literacy learning that are embedded in place connection. With reference to the perception of the environment as the “third teacher”, Louise argues that our surrounds impact on the ways that we make meaning and understand the world around us.