Encounters With the Unthought in Education: How Might the Human Rethink Humanness?

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Abstract

Through relational concepts and methods, this paper will decentre anthropocentric world views by attending to teaching and learning (and/or knowledge production) as a collective process that is generated in relation to land, water, aesthetic and technological materials, and multispecies spaces/places. This paper will draw on diverging epistemological and ontological traditions, which include Indigenous, Black feminist, and critical posthumanist frameworks. I grapple with these diverging perspectives as a way to generate ethical engagements and alternative futures in schools and communities that disrupt dominant discourse of race, class, culture, and gender; and that further attend to the more-than-human land that is at stake in anthropogenic times.

Author

• Nikki Rotas, University of Alberta