Common World Pedagogies for the Anthropocene: A More-Than-Human Take on Environmental Education-as-Collective Action

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

The imminent naming of the Anthropocene both reconfirms the urgent need for environmental education-as-activism and demands that we rethink our ways of doing it. We seize it as a moment to: (1) challenge the conceits of human exceptionalism that have led our species to fundamentally alter the earth’s ecological systems, (2) radically rethink our place and agency in the world,, and (3) try out new kinds of ‘common world’ pedagogies that enact a more-than-human form of recuperative collective action. Presenters will offer audio-visual demonstrations of their ‘common world’ pedagogies in Canada and Australia, where they work with young children to take recuperative collective action with the environment, rather than simply learning about it or acting on its behalf.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chair

• Pauliina Rautio, University of Oulu

Papers

• Walking With Children of the Anthropocene: Producing Common Accounts of the World - Affrica Taylor, University of Canberra

• Stories for Multispecies Mortal Entanglements: Common World Rat-Child Pedagogies - Narda Nelson, University of Victoria

• Stories for Living on a Damaged Planet: Common World Bee-Child Pedagogies - Fikile Nxumalo, The University of Texas - Austin

• Stories for Unsustainable Waste Futures: Common World Textile-Child Pedagogies - Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, University of Victoria

• Dog-Child Stories From La Paz, Bolivia - Karen Malone, University of Western Sydney