CITY AS TEXT

creating authentic experience-based learning that fosters sustained civic engagement; providing site-specific field-based educational practices; implementing Experiential Learning in Higher Education; facilitating education in the form of mapping strategies that reshape typical habits of observation and analysis among people in general and perhaps students in particular; providing structured explorations (reflective practices ranging from debriefs and discussions to reflective writing and discussions) and on forms of immersion in place; facilitating instances of experiential learning outcomes that illustrate the power of integrative learning to produce social sensitivity and engagement, especially when that integrating includes unscripted, raw experience in the service of making sense of complex settings; providing opportunities for participants to read an urban landscape and find meaning through walkabouts and active exploration of the environment;