{"product_id":"teaching-toward-slow-hope-place-based-learning-in-college-and-beyond-9781421453903","title":"Teaching Toward Slow Hope: Place-Based Learning in College and Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReimagining college as a space for connection, meaning, and collective resilience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeaching Toward Slow Hope\u003c\/i\u003e reveals what happens when higher education dares to become something more than transactional. Rather than positioning education as a financial investment, this book reimagines college as a space where students cultivate the skills and relationships needed for \"collaborative survival\" in an increasingly unpredictable world. Against a backdrop of mental health crises, ecological instability, and structural inequality, Douglas Haynes traces how students and educators across the Upper Midwest are remaking college into a place for connection, meaning, and collective resilience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough on-the-ground reporting and interviews with students, Haynes describes the impacts of dynamic, place-based educational programs. He takes readers on a journey from urban gardens in Milwaukee to restored oak savannas in Madison, and from a community food hub in Kalamazoo to the shore of Lake Superior. At the heart of the programs he visits is a shared commitment to what Haynes calls practices of slow hope: deep listening, reciprocity, collaboration, and embodied learning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaynes evokes the experiences of students harvesting native seeds, cooking with local produce, gathering community histories, and learning to see their landscapes anew. Many of these students are first-generation or struggling with anxiety or affording college. From their experiences emerges a deeply human story of transformation based in place, community, and care. \u003ci\u003eTeaching Toward Slow Hope\u003c\/i\u003e offers educators, administrators, and anyone invested in the future of higher education a powerful new lens for thinking about what college is really for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Haynes \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEvery Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLast Word\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160158368018,"sku":"9781421453903","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b1c9e331-1f46-4017-b0fe-1cc4c45c6e78.jpg?v=1775038266","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/teaching-toward-slow-hope-place-based-learning-in-college-and-beyond-9781421453903","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}