A Beach Somewhere: The Australian Littoral Imagination at Play

Bennett, Bruce

doi:10.1163/9789401204514_004

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“…These somewhat contradictory opposing metaphors as signs are not limited to their physical aspects but can be extended to the socio-cultural and ecological levels where their particular meanings are historically constructed. Bennett (2007) wrote that the liminal topology of the beach has been typically adopted by Australian writers, such as Robert Drewe and Tim Winton, to dramatise the national psyche. This is, however, not to generalise "Australian-ness" of Australian outdoor environmental education through EAL; rather, it shows how the two competing conceptualisations of place are tied together and somewhat non-problematically included within the pedagogical discourse of Australian outdoor environmental education.…”

Section: Beach and Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiencing Beach in Australia: Study Abroad Students' Perspectives

Nakagawa

Payne

2011

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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AbstractThe current “Australian-ness” of outdoor environmental education is an evolving “set” of socio-cultural constructions. These constructions can be interpreted within the circumstances of an empirical study of tertiary study abroad students' participation in an undergraduate semester long unit “Experiencing the Australian Landscape” (EAL) as an ambivalent mixture of belonging and beach, or solidity and fuidity. This ambivalence imparts various meanings within and about the Australian context of beach as a “place”. The study is based on an interpretive mixed method ethnographic and phenomenological small-scale case study. It fnds that the beach experience is infuenced by various social discourses, such as neocolonialism, individualism and mobility. Participants experienced the beach in a fuid sense of non-belonging, despite the EAL intention of fostering a place-responsive pedagogy. In order to understand their experience and its alleged link to an enhanced environmental awareness, an embodied dialectic descriptive interpretation of place experience is suggested.

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Section: Beach and Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%