There is a growing global shift towards urbanization resulting in diminishing connections with the traditional rural placescape. Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has a long history of out-migration and internal migration between communities in coastal areas within the province. Resettlement programs initiated by the NL government between 1954 and 1975 accounted for the internal migration of approximately 30,000 people from 300 communities. Modern-day encounters with these abandoned communities are relevant to understanding the loss of place and home, as significant numbers of students in NL today are affected by migration. This paper is a phenomenological study of the experiences of educators as they explored the remnants of an abandoned community. The participants of the study were six experienced public school educators with teaching experience at the primary, elementary, intermediate, and secondary levels. The study took place in eight abandoned communities located on the western shore of Placentia Bay, where mainly the remnants of Isle Valen, St. Leonard’s, St. Kyran’s, and Great Paradise were explored. Data collection consisted of two personal interviews and one group hermeneutic circle, with the aim to answer one fundamental question: What is the experience of educators exploring the remnants of an abandoned community? Data in this study are represented by lived experience descriptions, which were interpreted hermeneutically and guided by four phenomenological existentials: temporality, corporeality, spatiality, and relationality. The results of this study not only provide deeper insight into intense experiences in communities abandoned through resettlement; they also reveal the significance of place in our lives, place as heuristic teacher, the pedagogical power of place, the need for local, meaningful place-based experiences in a curriculum as lived, and their potential for furthering personal and educational insight no matter where in this world we live or dwell.

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探索废弃地的体验强度

全球日益向城市化转变，导致与传统乡村景观的联系减少。纽芬兰和拉布拉多 (NL) 省内沿海地区的社区之间的外迁和内迁历史悠久。NL 政府在 1954 年至 1975 年间发起的重新安置计划涉及来自 300 个社区的大约 30,000 人的内部迁移。与这些废弃社区的现代遭遇与了解失去地方和家园有关，因为今天荷兰有大量学生受到移民的影响。本文是对教育工作者在探索废弃社区遗迹时的经历的现象学研究。该研究的参与者是六名经验丰富的公立学校教育工作者，他们在小学、小学、中学和中学都有教学经验。该研究在位于 Placentia 湾西岸的八个废弃社区进行，主要探索了 Isl​​e Valen、St. Leonard's、St. Kyran's 和 Great Paradise 的遗迹。数据收集包括两次个人访谈和一组解释学循环，旨在回答一个基本问题：教育工作者探索废弃社区的遗迹是什么体验？本研究中的数据由生活经验描述表示，这些描述被解释学解释并由四种现象学存在论指导：时间性、肉体性、空间性和关系性。这项研究的结果不仅提供了更深入地了解因重新安置而被遗弃的社区的激烈经历；它们还揭示了地方在我们生活中的重要性、作为启发式教师的地方、地方的教学力量、在生活中的课程中对本地、有意义的基于地方的体验的需求，以及无论在哪里，它们都具有促进个人和教育洞察力的潜力在这个世界上我们生活或居住。