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What it means to belong, in stories and on the road

Books about travel, home and care show how people belong to places. These curations cover how lived experience shapes travel writing, what foster care says about home, and what women's experiences on the Grand Tour reveal about who was allowed to travel.

How lived experience shapes travel writing as a literary form

Travel writing as a literary form includes outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs, with some works shaped by personal experience and others offering factual information about a place. What can readers understand about how lived experience shapes travel writing? The lessons consider how journeys influence a writer's perspective, form, and interpretation of places.

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Women's experiences on the Grand Tour

The Grand Tour was a traditional European trip, with Italy a key destination, taken by upper-class young men as an educational rite of passage when they came of age. What can women's experiences reveal about how this travel tradition changed and was understood? The lessons consider women's place in the Grand Tour through travel, family, and cultural expectations.

by Curiate·the history of the grand tour

Foster care and the meaning of home

Childhood in the foster care system is a time when a minor lives in a ward, group home, or private home with a state-certified caregiver or state-approved family member, usually through government or a social service agency. What does home mean in this context, and how can readers understand its place in a child's life? The lessons consider the ties between care, family, and belonging.

by Curiate·childhood in the foster care system

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