32.083-20 - Emerging Approaches in Environmental Education Research

• In Event: 32.083 - Roundtable Session 12

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session explores research possibilities and predicaments in environmental education presented by an emerging ecological turn in diverse but related fields concerned with the relationship between language, meaning and understanding (i.e. hermeneutics, linguistics, semiotics). We are interested in such conceptual frameworks for they suggest, to varying degrees, that the capacity to make meaning, to be communicative, to employ language, and to exert agency extend beyond the limited boundaries of the human. Each paper in the session draws from different fields and varied ontological presuppositions, and we are collectively interested in how humans signify, interpret and otherwise interact with other-than-human beings and processes, and with diverse ecological, social, material, political and phenomenological implications.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chairs

• Michael W. Derby, Simon Fraser University

• Teresa Katrina Lloro-Bidart, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

Papers

• Material-Political Engagements With Carnal and Ecological Hermeneutics in Environmental Education - Joshua James Russell, Canisius College

• Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Climate Change Education Discourse: An Eco-Linguistic Perspective - Joseph A. Henderson, University of Delaware; Asli Sezen-Barrie, University of Maine; Andrea Drewes, University of Delaware

• The Importance of a Semiotics of Semiosis for Educationalizing Ecology and Ecologizing Education - Ramsey Affifi, University of Edinburgh

• "It's Not a Stick": Examining Power Relations Within Unstructured Play at Nature-Based Elementary Schools - Laura Piersol, Simon Fraser University