Restorying Environmental Education : Figurations, Fictions, and Feral Subjectivities /
This book examines a performative environmental educational inquiry through a place-based eco-art project collaboratively undertaken with a class of grade 4-6 students around the lost streams of Vancouver. The resulting work explores the contradictions gathered in relation to the Western educational...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Cham : |
Publication Dates: | 2017. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Curriculum Studies Worldwide
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48796-0 |
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This book examines a performative environmental educational inquiry through a place-based eco-art project collaboratively undertaken with a class of grade 4-6 students around the lost streams of Vancouver. The resulting work explores the contradictions gathered in relation to the Western educational system and the encounter with Other (real and imaginary others), including the shifting and growing self, and an attempt to find and foster nourishing alliances for transforming environmental education. Drawing on the work of new materialist theorists Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, and Karen Bara |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XIII, 151 pages) : illustrations. |
ISBN: | 9783319487960 |
Index Number: | LC189 |
CLC: | G40-052 |
Contents: | 1. How to Create Human Humus Instead of Human Hubris -- 2. A Cartographic Mapping Practice: Environmental Education, the Material/Discursive, and New Materialist Praxis -- 3. Bag-lady Storytelling: The Carrier-bag Theory of Fiction as Research Praxis -- 4. Doing: Exploring the Lost Streams of Vancouver Through Eco-Art -- 5. Thinking: A Narrative Inquiry into Possible Figurations and Multiple Modes of Ecological Thought -- 6. How to Keep the Story going for Those Who Come After. . |