Sustainability, Place, and Rhetoric: A Case Study of a Levinsian Pedagogy of Responsibility by Sarah Hart Micke
This essay theorizes a pedagogy of responsibility as an alternative to place-based and critical pedagogies that offers to ground students in deep ethical obligation. Using Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics, I suggest that place may function as a trace of the Other that reminds the self of her responsibility. By analyzing a case study of a place-based…