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Drawing on critical feminist geographies and the author’s experience as a transient woman of color, it examines how place is conceived, perceived, and lived through interrelated place anchors. 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But whose meaning fills the location? Who defines meaning? What kind of meaning do we seek? These questions inadvertently call on place-based education to reflect on the often-unexamined meaning of place prevailing in the field. This paper draws substantially on the work of critical feminist geographies and the author’s own experience as a transient woman of colour to explore the diverse thoughts on and framing of place and to reveal how place is conceived, perceived, and lived through interrelated place anchors. The paper proposes this framework of place anchors in hopes that educators will have an entry point to critically reflect on and understand place as they/we engage in various place pedagogies.  \nRésumé  \nOn considère souvent les lieux comme chargés de sens. Mais pour qui le sont-ils? Qui définit ce sens? Quel sens y cherche-t-on en particulier? Ces questions nous portent incidemment à pousser notre réflexion sur le sens à donner à la notion de « lieu » en éducation axéesur le lieu, une dimensionsouventoubliée. Dans cet article, l’auteure, éclairée surtout par les travaux de géographesféministes critiques et par sa propre expérience de migrante et femme de couleur, explore différentes réflexions et conceptions concernant la notion de « lieu » . Elle explique également comment un lieu est créé, perçu et vécu à travers des points d’ancrage interreliés. Ce concept de points d’ancrage est proposé en vue d’offrir aux éducateurs un point de départ pour entreprendre une réflexion critique et mieux comprendre l’idée de « lieu » lorsqu’ils recourent à diverses approches pédagogiques axées sur le lieu.  \nKeywords: place, place-based education, place anchors, critical feminist geography, decolonization  \nMots-clés : lieu, éducation axée sur le lieu, points d’ancrage, géographie féministe critique, décolonisation  \n“I have been working to change the way I speak and write, to incorporate in the manner of telling a sense of place, of not just who I am in the present but where I am coming from, the multiple voices within me. I have confronted silence, inarticulateness. When I say, then, that these words emerge from suffering, I refer to that personal struggle to name that location from which I come to voice—that space of my theorizing.”  \nbell hooks, Yearning , 1990  \n54 Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 23 (3), 2020  \n“Just as none of us is beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography.”  \n— Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism , 1993  \nIntroduction  \nReflecting back, I seem to have searched for “place” my whole life as a transient body drifting from place to place. I struggle to “name the location from which I come to … the multiple voices within me”(hooks, 1990, p. 146) . Like bell hooks, I continue to face and learn from the silences and inarticulateness of my sense of place. The presence of my deeply held emplaced experiences became clear to me when I returned to Belize, where I spent my teenage years and young adulthood, for the first time after living in Canada for two years. Waking up to the sunrise, I put on a tank top and shorts and roamed the sandy beach while shooing the iguanas, comfortably covered in sweat. When I came across a pier, I jumped without hesitation, knowing feelingly I would immediately float back on the salty Caribbean Sea.  \nLiving in Belize is not always sunshine. I faced constant discrimination and potential harassment for being an East Asian woman, who is also privileged in many ways. But, I am used to that positionality—everything is so upfront, so “in your face”(sometimes literally) . I know which neighbourhoods are not suitable for a chiney gial but also where I can get homemade Taiwanese noodles. I know which plants might kill me and which can get rid of diarrhea. At the same time, in returning, I als","cbCaijiCa5JXhpvw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijiCa5JXhpvw","pdf",526718,"English","# Introduction\n## Place as meaning and contested definition\n## Place anchors framework and educational implications\n## Personal experience and place-based pedagogy","[{\"question\":\"Who determines the meaning of a place in the paper’s argument?\",\"answer\":\"The paper asks who defines meaning and suggests that place-based education should examine often-unexamined assumptions about how meaning fills a location.\"},{\"question\":\"What framework does the paper propose for educators?\",\"answer\":\"It proposes a framework of interrelated “place anchors” as an entry point for educators to critically reflect on and understand place through different place pedagogies.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author’s personal experience connect to the concept of place?\",\"answer\":\"The author reflects on returning to Belize, describing discrimination, positionality, and a growing realization of how familiar and unfamiliar place can be, which supports the paper’s exploration of how place is lived and perceived.\"}]","Making Sense of Place - Place Anchors and Educational Potentials | PDF",1792083885]