ABSTRACT In this essay, we explore an embodied walking engagement with the grounds of the Oklahoma City bombing memorial site that commemorates a bombing that killed 168 people in 1995. We consider our engagement as an existential pilgrimage with implications for peace education curriculum and pedagogy. Returning with intention again and again to a place that marks profound violence and loss—as well as peace and hope—invites attention, contemplation, and learning. Through entangled sensory engagement in place, in walking, being, and gathering with others, we bear witness to echoes of loss in the wake of the unthinkable. We first describe conceptual anchors of our inquiry, which we call ‘pilgrimage as inquiry’, as a form of walking methodology integral to place-based investigations. We describe insights resulting from our engagement at the memorial. Finally, we conclude with lessons for peace education that stretches beyond the memorial site itself.

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朝圣作为一种探究方式：俄克拉荷马城爆炸案纪念馆作为纠缠不清的教育场所

摘要 在这篇文章中，我们探索了在俄克拉荷马城爆炸纪念地的场地上进行的具身步行活动，该场地是为了纪念 1995 年造成 168 人死亡的爆炸事件。我们认为我们的参与是一次存在主义的朝圣之旅，对和平教育课程和教学法有影响。一次又一次地带着意图返回一个标志着深刻的暴力和失落——以及和平与希望——的地方，会引起人们的注意、沉思和学习。通过纠缠在原地、行走、存在和与他人聚会的感官参与，我们见证了不可思议的事情之后失去的回声。我们首先描述我们探究的概念锚点，我们称之为“作为探究的朝圣”，作为基于地点的调查不可或缺的步行方法的一种形式。我们描述了我们参与纪念活动所产生的见解。