A Radical, Rooted Curriculum for Climate Catastrophe: Resourcefulness, Regeneration, Connection, and Community

Session Type: Off-Site Visit

Abstract

This interactive, off-site symposium will offer participants insights and dynamic, arts-based experiences in proposed curriculum for regeneration and survivance in this time of climate crisis. We will inquire into the ways that education might build embodied relationships with the more than human world, and connect with our living, growing kin, to radically reorient our society toward resurgence. Taking up principles from permaculture, poetic inquiry, and Indigenous knowledges centred on relationality, kinship, story and Land, we move from refuse to refusal, from marginalization to the power of the margins. Five papers from new and established scholars introduce fresh approaches to curriculum through cultivating wild synergies, intergenerational biocultural continuance, the power of the roots, environmental justice arts reclamation, and journaling for resilience. This 120-minute off-site session will take place at San Francisco State University J. Paul Leonard Library, LIB 121 Events Room, 1630 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132 (35 minutes by transit). Registration through the AERA Registration Portal is required.

Sub Unit

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

Visit Leader

• Marna Hauk, PhD, Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies and Prescott College

Chair

• Susan Gerofsky, The University of British Columbia

Papers

• Thriving Kin Guilds Versus Dalek Hygiene: Permaculture/Rewilding Garden-Based Curriculum for Climate Survivance - Susan Gerofsky, The University of British Columbia

• Regenerative Design of Biocultural Wisdom Seeds: Dense Process Storage in Graduate Education for Post-Transformation Persevering - Marna Hauk, PhD, Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies and Prescott College

• Living Soil and Pedagogy From Below: School Gardens as Poetic and Critical Texts for Learning - Dilafruz R. Williams, Portland State University

• Reawakening Hawaiian Heritage Through Place-Based Environmental Justice Weaving: Reviving Culture With Repurposed Agricultural Plastics - Amanda Rachel Kippen, Prescott College

• Recursive Writing Spirals for Resilience: Active Hope Journaling and Metacognition in Eighth-Grade Math - Adam Masako Joy, Vancouver School District Arts Academy

Discussant

• Shandy Hauk, San Francisco State University