At sea : toward an educational discourse of loss and place -- Losing place : reluctant leavings and ambivalent returns -- Writing "The distance home" : migration, mourning, and difference -- "The word, for loss" : literacy, longing and belonging -- Separation, (re)connection, and a transformative education of place -- The place of reparation : loss, ambivalence and teaching -- "Learning to live with ghosts" : loss, place, and education.