Thinking with Nature: Following the Contour of Minor Concepts for Ethico-Political Response-Ability in Science Education
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Thinking with Nature: Following the Contour of Minor Concepts for Ethico-Political Response-Ability in Science Education Maria F. G. Wallace Jesse Bazzul
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Marc Higgins &
# Ontario Institute for Educational Studies (OISE) 2018
Abstract Nature, as a creative ontology, and the ethico-political possibilities inherent within have been seemingly occluded in the field of science education. By Thinking with Nature (TwN), we return to the ontological dimensions of practice and research methodology in science education. Drawing on new material feminisms, educators are invited to follow the contours of minor concepts with/in Nature. Thinking with Gilles Deleuze and Karen Barad, our theoretical tinkering follows the contours of minority within Nature, as opposed to the passive observation of brute matter, to illuminate concepts of possibility hidden in plain sight: holobionts and lightning. By following Nature’s inherent queerness, becoming-minor, TwN provokes an enactment of ethico-political response-ability in research on science education. Above all else, this paper should be read, not as a prescription, but a provocation for TwN and following the contours of minor(ity) concepts. Résumé La nature en tant qu’ontologie créative ainsi que les possibilités éthico-politiques qui lui sont inhérentes, ont apparemment été occultées dans le domaine de l’enseignement des sciences. Avec la pensée symbiotique avec la nature (PSN), nous revenons aux dimensions ontologiques de la pratique et de la méthodologie de recherche en enseignement des sciences. S’inspirant de nouvelles données, les enseignants en études féministes sont invités à suivre les contours des concepts qui existent au sein même de la nature. Plus précisément, notre bricolage théorique réside dans la tonalité mineure de la nature, et vise à mettre en lumière de nouvelles possibilités qui se cachent sous nos yeux, par exemple les holobiontes et les éclairs. En s’intéressant à l’étrangeté inhérente à la nature, ou à sa tonalité mineure, la PSN promeut la capacité de réponse éthico-politique en recherche sur l’enseignement des sciences. Keywords Science education . Minor inquiry . Ontology . Nature . Philosophy M. F. G. Wallace (*) Millsaps College, 1701 N. State Street, P.O. Box 150434, Jackson, MS 39210, USA e-mail: [email protected] M. Higgins University of Alberta, Faculty of Education, Department of Secondary Education, 646, Education Centre South, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5, Canada e-mail: [email protected] J. Bazzul University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada e-mail: [email protected]
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Thinking with Nature
Revisit an encounter. Linger with the more-than-human. Follow a different thought. Within science education, Nature1 continues to be overcoded by dominant discursive practices. Nature is far more than substantive content (e.g., Laws of Nature, properties of matter) as it is reduced to far too often within science education. Yet, Nature itself (as immanent totality) exceeds
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