Valuing the Past, Sustaining the Future?: Exploring Coastal Societies, Childhood(s) and Local Knowledge in Times of Global Transition

Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Exploring Coastal Societies and Knowledge in Transition Across Generations
	1.1 Coastal Communities in Transition
	1.2 The Changing Values of Education and Knowledge
	1.3 Education, Knowledge, and Sustainability
	1.4 Researching Children and Young People: Theoretical Perspectives
	1.5 Methodology
	1.6 Mapping the Chapters of This Volume
	References
Chapter 2: Coastal Communities Past, Present, and Future? The Value of Social and Cultural Sustainability
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Conceptualising Sustainability
		2.2.1 Sustainable Development
	2.3 Sustainability in Small Coastal Communities
	2.4 Challenges of Coastal Sustainability and the SDG Agenda
		2.4.1 Social and Cultural Sustainability - A Relational Intergenerational Approach
		2.4.2 Bringing Culture In
	2.5 Cultural Heritage and Collective Social Memory
	2.6 Local Knowledge Transmission
	2.7 Justice and Sustainability
	2.8 Valuing the Past, Sustaining the Future?
	References
Chapter 3: Growing Up in a Norwegian Coastal Town in the Nineteenth Century: Work and Intergenerational Relations
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Intergenerational Relations and Child Work
	3.3 Shipping Industry in Porsgrunn in the Nineteenth Century
	3.4 Young Boys at Sea
	3.5 Changing Businesses and Child Work in Porsgrunn
	3.6 Child Work and Intergenerational Relations on Shore in Porsgrunn
	3.7 Work, Education and Intergenerational Relations in a Pre-modern Coastal Community
	References
Chapter 4: `I´m Treading Water Here for My Generation´: Gendered and Generational Perspectives on Informal Knowledge Transmiss...
	4.1 Introduction - Local Knowledge in Coastal Contexts
	4.2 Setting the Coastal Context: The Transition from Working Childhoods to Educational Trajectories
	4.3 Theorising `Local´ Knowledge and (Sociocultural) Sustainability
	4.4 The Irish Study Field Sites and Sample Population
	4.5 Methods and Tools of Analysis
	4.6 Manifestations of Informal Local Knowledge Transmissions Across Time and Gender in the Sustainability of Irish Coastal Com...
		4.6.1 Broadening and Deepening a `Way of Life´
		4.6.2 Deepening and Regrounding
	4.7 Hybrid `Local´ Knowledge for the Future?
	4.8 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Local Knowledge and Change in a Small Fishing Community in Cyprus: Implications for Social and Cultural Sustainabil...
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Sense of Place, Belonging, and Ruptures in the Intergenerational Transmission of Local Knowledge
	5.3 Methodology
	5.4 Local Knowledge, Skills, and Values
	5.5 Place, Intergenerational Relationships, and Sustainability
	5.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: The Shifting Landscape of Childhood and Literacies of the Sea in a Coastal Community in Mid-Norway: Sustaining the ...
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Methodology and Site of Investigation
		6.2.1 Landscapes of Childhood and Literacies of the Sea: Theoretical Perspectives
	6.3 Landscapes of Childhood and Literacies of the Sea in a Small-Scale Fishing Community
		6.3.1 Place as a Site of Knowing; the Sea as an Educator
		6.3.2 Mutual Interdependent and Intergenerational Communities of Work
		6.3.3 Robust Adaptation to Marine Resources: Diverse Skills; Mangsyssler´n
		6.3.4 Moral/Cultural Values: The Best of the Community as an Overall Aim
		6.3.5 ``When People Got Money, There Was a Change´´: Transition to the Fish-Farming Industry
		6.3.6 Kystbarnehagen: An Institutional Space for Revitalization of Literacies of the Sea?
		6.3.7 ``By No Doubt, I Want to Be a Fisherman´´
	6.4 Sustainability by Valuing the Landscape of Childhood and the Literacies of the Sea: Concluding Discussion
	References
Chapter 7: Learning from the Coast: Youth, Family, and Local Knowledge in the Faroe Islands
	7.1 Introduction and Theoretical Framework
	7.2 Method and Context
	7.3 How to Grow Potatoes
	7.4 The Big Catch
	7.5 How to Walk Zigzag
	7.6 Making the Knot
	References
Chapter 8: Sustainability, Knowledge and Social Identity: Commonalities, Conflicts and Complexities in Coastal Communities in ...
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Sustainability
	8.3 Knowledge
	8.4 Social Identity
	8.5 The Research Context
		8.5.1 Tasmanian Research Sites
	8.6 Methodology and Methods
	8.7 Sustainability, Knowledge and Identities on the Coast
		8.7.1 Fishing as Identity
		8.7.2 Coastal and Tasmanian: Shared Narratives of Identity
		8.7.3 Conflicting Identities
		8.7.4 Developmentalism as Sustainability and Identity
		8.7.5 Environmentalism, Sustainability and Identity
	8.8 What Knowledge Is Valued? What Knowledge Is Valuable?
	8.9 Concluding Comments
	References
Chapter 9: ``I Shall Be a Fisherman´´: Learning from the Past, Imagining the Future: Observations from a Viable Fishing Commun...
	9.1 Prologue
	9.2 When It All Starts
	9.3 Teenagers and Youth
	9.4 How We Teach and Taught Our Boys to Become Fishers
	9.5 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 10: The Sea Lost and Found: Changes and Interdependencies in a Coastal Community in Denmark
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 A Relational Approach to Communities
	10.3 Changing Interdependencies
	10.4 Local Opportunities
	10.5 Ambivalent Perspectives
	10.6 Detachment from the Local
	10.7 Social Viability: Present and Future Perspectives
	References
Chapter 11: Blue Education: Exploring Case Studies of Place-Based and Intergenerational Learning on Norwegian Islands
	11.1 Introduction
	11.2 Theoretical Perspectives - The Coast as a Site for Place- and Activity-Based Forms of Learning
		11.2.1 Intergenerational Dimension of Place- and Activity-Based Forms of Learning
		11.2.2 The Maritime Pedagogue
	11.3 Methodological Framework
		11.3.1 Case 1: `Out on the Sea, Into the Farmyard´
		11.3.2 Case 2: `From the Town to the Sea´: Travelling to Explore `the Local´ in a Small Fishing Community
		11.3.3 Case 3: Education, Blue Agriculture and Local Food Production
	11.4 Valuing Blue Agriculture: Students´ Experiences
	11.5 Mustering the Grit and Generational Linage as an Educational Asset
	11.6 Out on the Ocean: Into Intergenerational Learning
	11.7 The Maritime Pedagogue
	11.8 Concluding Remarks
	References
Chapter 12: Becoming Coastal in a Minor Key
	12.1 Living at the Edge of the World
	12.2 Learning the More-Than-Human Sea
	12.3 Gendered Seamanship
	12.4 Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Sustainable Ethics
	12.5 The Ethics of Becoming Coastal
	12.6 Spinosa Lived on the Coast
	References