Pedagogies of Responsibility as Relationships of Healing: Wendell Berry, Eco-Justice, and Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium introduces the primary themes and principles in a forthcoming book on Wendell Berry’s work as it influences the conceptualization of pedagogies of responsibility within EcoJustice Education. The session offers an overview of the book, introducing the chapter outline as well as the principle arguments in several chapters: 1) Berry’s analysis of white supremacy and settler colonialism as these wound our communities, ourselves, and the land 2) his assertion of “ignorance” as an unavoidable human characteristic requiring humility and his critique of arrogant epistemologies; 3) his critique of science that expose the limits and possibilities of STEM education, and 4) his conception of health as holism offering important alternatives to nursing education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Ivan Illich

Chair

• Rebecca A Martusewicz, Eastern Michigan University

Papers

• Hidden Wounds: White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and the Unsettling of America - Rebecca A Martusewicz, Eastern Michigan University

• An Ignorance-Based Education: Wendell Berry and the Limits of Human Knowledge - John Mullen, Eastern Michigan University

• Can STEM Contribute to Wendell Berry's Healthy World? - Katharine Lynn Adams, Eastern Michigan University

• Reading Wendell Berry on Health for Nursing Education - Kristi Wilson, University of Michigan - Flint