Abstract
Landscapes have been and are an important aspect of any society, culture, economy and environment. Besides the role of landscape and Landscape Sciences in these arenas, there have been increasingly greater calls to incorporate landscape into the curriculum. Moreover, Landscape Education is beneficial in developing important foundations in students, particularly that of active citizenry. While the benefits of Landscape Education are evident, current research remains focused on Western, especially European, contexts. This article discusses how a leading Singapore public University incorporates Landscape Education within a relatively new module on Toponymy offered in the Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Programme. While the links between Linguistics and a course in Toponymy or even the links between Toponymy and Landscape may not be immediately apparent, an analysis of the content covered in the module demonstrates congruence to existing frameworks and principles in teaching Landscape Education and, at the same time, provides a case in point in interdisciplinarity, drawing from diverse disciplines such as Language, Linguistics, History, Geography, Landscape Sciences, Anthropological Linguistics, among many others. This study provides useful references for educational institutions in incorporating Landscape Education into their curriculum.
Highlights
Landscapes and Landscape EducationLandscapes are at the core of any society
The intersection between nature and human beings is evident in the definition provided by the European Landscape Convention (ELC), which was the first international treaty to be exclusively devoted to European landscape
The ELC defines landscape as “an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors” [2] (p. 2)
Summary
Landscapes are at the core of any society. A 2004 book published by New Zealand’s. While the wh-questions undergirded Tent’s paper, prominent linguist and Toponymy scholar Joshua Nash calls for a greater focus on the “how” of Toponymy, a strand of research which considers phenomena between, within and across toponymic contexts and what these contexts mean To this end, the landscape is used as an object of study, in studying how attributes of landscape vis-à-vis Toponymy and how landscape setting and being in the world shape ways in which individuals develop an attachment to place through place-naming processes and toponyms [48]. Toponymy as a discipline enables its students and the wider audience to understand the society they live in through multiple angles, including but not limited to Physical, Human, Urban and Historical Geography, Nature, Languages, Linguistics, History, Culture, Society, Landscape Sciences, Landscape Archaeology
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