Coyote and Raven Encounter Chet Bowers: Reflections and Implications From Eco-Justice Pedagogies of the Land

• In Event: Ecologically Intersecting Curriculum Studies With EE Research: 21st Century Implications, Inspirations, and C. A. Bowers

Abstract

In this paper, the Indigenious authors share by revisiting a dialogue storytelling of a conversation about the work of Chet Bowers. This research focuses on an oral narrative that journeys across and between the Global South and Global North. This narrative includes coyote, raven, the ghost of Chet Bowers, and Shakespeare as they pursue a conversation around ecojustice education that goes beyond progressive ideologies to include non-human and more-than-human intelligences. Time is represented as a nuclear doomsday clock; space is represented in languages, the virtual pedagogies of the land, and the commons. Their narrative interweaves not only Bowers’ ideas with Indigenous knowledge, but it also suggests Bowers’ hopes and frustrations. Concluding, the authors share suggestions for departures from traditional EE scholarship and research toward diverse stories and dialogue that pushes beyond the confines of 20th and 21st Century schooling.

Authors

• Peter Cole, The University of British Columbia

• Pat A. O'Riley, The University of British Columbia