Vibrant Earth: Bioculturally Embedded Educational Encounters Catalyzing Earth Regenerative Creativities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Educational researchers reveal regenerative creativities sourced in Earth that promise biocultural regeneration, creative restoration, and diverse liberations. This interactive symposium draws from a rich, international, transdisciplinary synergy of research projects to generate a creative space for interchange about creative diversities sourced in earth connection. These proposals break the human/nature binary and share in the mutualism of matrixial biocultural embedment. They explore how biocultural embedment, at multiple scales, produces regenerative capacity. Through arts-based approaches, indigenous ethnographies, experiential STEM, and complexity methods, these projects suggest directions for catalyzing change. The earth itself, as the first teacher, in and through embedded learners and learning collectivities, suggests innovations for critical and creative empowerments to catalyze diverse democracies.
Keywords: transdisciplinary, creativity, eco-restoration, arts-based research, decolonizing methods

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 5: Place and Praxis (The Places of Curriculum)

Chair

• Marna Hauk, Ph.D., Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies and Prescott College

Papers

• Earth Regenerative Creativities in Higher Educational Design - Marna Hauk, Ph.D., Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies and Prescott College

• After Embeddedness: Dreaming Soil Ecologies Through Arts-Based Research - Barbara A. Bickel, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

• Decolonizing Development: Freeing Biocultural Diversities in Egypt to Enhance Regenerative Capacity - Abeer Salem, MSA University

• Democratizing Mathematics via Embodied Learning and the Arts in a Teaching and Learning Garden - Susan Gerofsky, The University of British Columbia

Discussant

• Chessa Adsit-Morris