Wild Pedagogies Touchstones for Re-Negotiating Education and the Env
‘This book leads an attack on the domestication of learning, the creeping formality, the structures and control, the standardizing, the separation of each of us from ourselves and our physical reality. This is a portrait of the physicality of children and
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WILD PEDAGOGIES Touchstones for Re-Negotiating Education and the Environment in the Anthropocene
Edited by
Bob Jickling, Sean Blenkinsop, Nora Timmerman and Michael De Danann Sitka-Sage
Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures
Series Editor jan jagodzinski Department of Secondary Education University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada “Wild Pedagogies leads an attack on the domestication of learning, the creeping formality, the structures and control, the standardizing, the separation of each of us from ourselves and our physical reality. Here’s a portrait of the physicality of children and the need to embrace this in education; the need to see education as humans in the world; the need to experiment with ideas and words that give meaning to our intuitions. An important argument. An important book.” —John Ralston Saul, award-winning essayist and novelist. “This seminal book is simply stunning. It offers educators and researchers genuine avenues—or what the authors call touchstones—for troubling dominant education systems. Jickling, Blenkinsop, Timmerman and Sitka-Sage offer “wild hope” in wild times where the planet has entered a new geologic era—the Anthropocene. Books like this are desperately needed to shift education into a new wild era where teachers are supported in returning to or opening up their own wildness in pedagogy. It is a return to what Leopold eloquently describes as “growing down,” honouring wild childhoods.” —Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Sustainability, Environment & Education (SEE) Research Cluster, Southern Cross University, Australia. “Set in the most important of all contexts—with the future of life on our planet at stake—this book reminds us that whilst we can and must learn in and through wild (and perhaps not-so-wild) places, modern education systems around the world must also learn and adapt, and with urgency. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in education and its role in supporting the health of planet Earth—and surely that should mean all of us!” —Peter Higgins, Professor of Outdoor and Environmental Education and Director the Edinburgh Global Environment and Society Academy, University of Edinburgh, UK.
The series Educational Futures would be a call on all aspects of education, not only specific subject specialist, but policy makers, religious education leaders, curriculum theorists, and those involved in shaping the educational imagination through its foundations and both psychoanalytical and psychological investments with youth to address this extraordinary precarity and anxiety that is continually rising as things do not get better but worsen. A global de-territorialization is taking place, and new voices and visions need to be seen and heard. The series would address the following questions and concerns. The three key signifiers of the book series title address this state of risk and emergency: 1. The Anthropocene: The ‘human world,’ the world-for-us is drifting toward a global situation where human extinction is not out of the question due to economic industr
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