Next Offered in Spring Semester, 2026

This course introduces students to the content and practice of Place-Based Education (PBE) through an intensive exploration of Huronia by bike, foot, and canoe. It will provide an in-depth study of the region’s Indigenous and Settler histories, patterns of colonization, geographic features, and environmental characteristics, to prepare educators teaching in this area with a strong foundation of place. It will also introduce students to the philosophies, pedagogies, and curriculums of PBE, providing opportunities to practice this approach. During this experience, students will visit key sites of historic, geographic, social, and environmental significance and conduct relevant inquiry projects. For more information, see:

• Students learn history by cycling, paddling, hiking historic routes

• Learning Wild and Free: Pedagogies from a Course on the Histories of Huronia (Pluim & Snache)

• Place-Based Education in Simcoe County (Co-instructed by Gary Pluim and Kory Snache)

• EDUC 1050: Introduction to Education (2023-24)
• EDUC 3238: Outdoor, Ecological & Experiential Education (2014-16)
• EDUC 3910: Critical Thinking in Education (2018)
• EDUC 3910: Place Based Education in Simcoe County (2021, 2023)
• EDUC 3911: Global Citizenship Education: Issues for Teachers (2015-26)
• EDUC 4413: Foundations of Education (2013-15)
• EDUC 4034: Curriculum & Instruction in Social Studies (2016-25)
• EDUC 4353: Social Difference in Education (2016; 2019-23)
• EDUC 4375: Democracy and Education (2019-20)
• EDUC 4417: Educational Psychology (2014)
• INTD 3011: Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Justice (2017)
• INTD 3011: Democracy in the Era of Trump (2017)
• INTD 3011: Histories of Indigenous-Settler Relationships in Huronia (2018)
• INTD 3014: Topics in International Conflict & Human Rights: Global Citizenship (2018)
• SOCI 1100: Introduction to Sociology (2014-18)