Table of Contents

SECTION 1: THE PROCESSES OF LEARNING OUT THERE

Section Overview
Where the past and present intersect …
Sam Kerr

CHAPTER ONE
"You cannot avoid all of this past, present, and future when it’s everywhere around you": Reflecting Relational Thinking in Field Study Experiences
Kacy McKinney

Living in the moment ...
Emily Halvorsen

CHAPTER TWO
An Integrative, Thematic Approach to International Field Study Programs
Aaron Williams

Being part of something bigger …
Kathleen O’Reilly

CHAPTER THREE
The Enlivened Classroom: Bringing the Field Back to Campus
Nakanyike B. Musisi

There is no front of the classroom here …
Rob Cook

CHAPTER FOUR
Settlers Unsettled: Using Field Schools and Digital Stories to Transform Geographies of Ignorance About Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Heather Castleden, Kiley Daley, Vanessa Sloan Morgan, and Paul Sylvestre

Discovering traces of the past …
Sara Lax

SECTION 2: IMPLICATIONS OF PLACE

Section Overview
Connecting with the community …
Aisling Kennedy

CHAPTER FIVE
Outsider Education: Indigenous Law and Land-Based Learning
John Borrows

Live life with significance …
Freya Selander

CHAPTER SIX
Putting Law in its Place: Field School Explorations of Indigenous and Colonial Legal Geographies
Deborah Curran

Mysteries remain …
Laura Buchan

CHAPTER SEVEN
Power in Place: Dilemmas in Leading Field Schools to the Global South
Elizabeth Vibert and Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta

What you can’t get from a textbook …
Sarah Elwood

SECTION 3: ASSESSING THE VALUE OF THE JOURNEY

Section Overview
Kuala Lumpur & Singapore Comparison I and II
Bonny Fu

CHAPTER EIGHT
Getting beyond "It changed my life": Assessment of Out-There Transformation
Janelle S. Peifer and Elaine Meyer-Lee

9:14 AM: Saturday, May 14, 2016
"The world moves through us" …
Jake Noah Sherman

CHAPTER NINE
Assessing Learning "Out There": Four Key Challenges and Opportunities
Cameron Owens and Maral Sotoudehnia

Embracing complexities …
Liah Formby

CHAPTER TEN
Transformation in the Field: Short-Term Study Abroad and the Pursuit of Changes
Michael R. Glass

Education can be empowering …
Emily Tennent

About the Author

Deborah Curran is associate professor in the Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.

Cameron Owens is associate teaching professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria.

Helga Thorson is associate professor and chair in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria.

Elizabeth Vibert is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. She is the author of Traders' Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000).

Reviews

"Out There Learning poses fundamental questions about the nature of education in the twenty-first century, especially at a time in which the virtual has brought new challenges and possibilities to the fore. The editors and authors invite us to ponder on the rationale and consequences of field schools on peoples and places and to be aware of the potential for perpetuating neoliberal arrangements that have permeated higher education, bringing a slew of ethical questions about motivations, methods, and implications." - Hélène B. Ducros (Europe Now Journal, April 2020)