Emma Rawlings Smith is Lecturer in Sustainability and Geography Education at the University of Southampton, England.

Susan Pike is Assistant Professor of Geography Education, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

PART 1: BEING IN PLACE 1. Bee-ing and Feeling of Place 2. Encountering the Riverina: Developing inter-cultural capabilities in Indigenous science environmental education 3. Reframing children's disempowered relationships with once-familiar places through Eco-Capabilities 4. Encountering the Everyday: Place writing during geography fieldwork 5. Place-based learning initiatives in the Burrenbeo 6. A place-based pedagogy for outdoor education PART 2: COMMUNITY PLACES, PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES 7. Documenting young children's perspectives of their locality through their multi-modal representations of space 8. Mapping the importance of place, identity and local ways of knowing 9. Place-based education: Fostering local identities among Thailand's youth 10. Young people's musings on community at a community radio station 11. Place-based education: Understanding and investigating the important questions 12. Possibilities of a radical pedagogy of place: Lessons from Haocha 13. Developing a virtual sense of place PART 3: ENCOUNTERING PLACE IN EDUCATIONAL SPACES 14. Home, place and young people's geographies in the classroom 15. Fostering the Traveller child's sense of place in education 16. Interrupting the everyday: Students' photography in reimagining their places 17. Diversity, demographics and sense of place: English as an Additional Language pupils' school experiences 18. Difference and diversity: teaching climate change through an attention to place 19. Exploring the geographical palimpsest of place through local and international fieldwork 20. Conclusion