Reweaving Environmental Education From the Inside Out

• In Event: Roundtable Session 8
  In Roundtable Session: Internal/Holistic Dimensions of Environmental Education

Abstract

What happens when students, teachers and researchers actually, and actively, “work the internal,” opening to embodied, animist and intuitive ways of knowing within their research lives? Using autoethnographic métissage and a participatory consciousness, we investigate the lived experiences of those who embody animist ways of knowing, yet live and work within modern Western culture and educational institutions. Data includes the authors’ autoethnographic narratives and artwork woven together with graduate students’ accounts. What does it feel, and look like as we stretch towards new(old) ways of being “in relation” to those who are more-than-human? We propose that a focus on “interiors” is essential, and that engaging with the more-than-human is an indispensable part of this internal work.

Authors

• M.J. Barrett, University of Saskatchewan

• Aline Wilkie