This book explores new pedagogical challenges and potentials of the Anthropocene era. The authors argue that this new epoch, with an unstable climate, new kinds of globally spreading viruses, and new knowledges, calls for a new way of educating and an alertness to new philosophies of education and pedagogical imaginations, thoughts, and practices. Addressing the linkages between the Anthropocene and Pedagogy across a broad pedagogical spectrum that is both formal and informal, the editors and their contributors emphasize a re-imagining of education that serves to deepen our understanding of the capacities and values of life.
Author(s): Michael Paulsen, Jan Jagodzinski, Shé M. Hawke
Series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 384
City: Cham
Preface
Praise for Pedagogy in the Anthropocene
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Boxes
Chapter 1: A Critical Introduction
Integrated Pedagogy
The Anthropocene
The Contested Anthropocene
Controversy # 1: When Did It All Start?
Controversy # 2: The Name of the Game
Controversy # 3: A Narrow or Broad
Controversy # 4: A Good or Bad Anthropocene—or, Does It Ever End?
Structure of the Book
A Non-conclusive Conclusion: The Diversity of Anthropocene Pedagogies
References
Part I: Wild Pedagogies
Chapter 2: Wild Pedagogies: Opportunities and Challenges for Practice
Introduction
Educational Responses: A Scholarly Ethos
Wild Pedagogies
Wilderness, Wilding, and Will
Wilding of Pedagogy
Touchstones
Touchstone #1: Nature as Co-teacher
Touchstone #2: Complexity, the Unknown, and Spontaneity
Touchstone #3: Locating the Wild
Touchstone #4: Time and Practice
Touchstone #5: Socio-cultural Change
Touchstone #6: Building Alliances and the Human Community
Touchstone #7: The Imagination—Limits and Possibilities
Considering Wild Pedagogies in Practice
Vignette #1
Vignette #2
Concluding Thoughts
References
Chapter 3: The Epistemological Possibilities of Love: Relearning the Love of Land
Prelude: Learning to Walk in the Dark
Ontology of the Isolated Individual and the Limits of Standard Education
Can Land Love?
Definition of Relational Ontology
Relational Ontologies in Educational Alternatives
Standard Education Actively Discourages Relational Ontologies
The Way Forward: An Ontological Shift in Education
References
Chapter 4: How Might Self-guided and Instructor-Led Nature Education Serve as a Gateway to Appreciating Non-human Agency and Values?
Introduction
Structure of the Chapter
Self-directed Nature Education
Instructor-Led Nature Education
Choice of Language
Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 5: Where the Children Are
Writing as a Method
Keyholes
First Keyhole: Excited by the (Seemingly) Unexciting
Reflections from Marianne
Reflections from Marcus
Reflections from Sean
Reflections from Bob
Second Keyhole: A Squirrel Isn’t Enough
Reflections from Marianne
Reflections from Marcus
Reflections from Sean
Reflections from Bob
Resonances and Dissonances
A Wonder/Wander
What If the Children Have Other Knowledges?
A Gestalt of Knowing
Knowing with/in the World
Bildung with/in the World
What If We Were to Support This Different/Other Knowledges in Education?
Play as Encounter
Paying Attention/Orienting to the World
Wildness and Education
References
Part II: Dark Pedagogies
Chapter 6: Action Incontinence: Action and Competence in Dark Pedagogy
Introduction
The Action Competence Tradition
Participatory Democratic Education
The Notions of Action and Competence
Educational Spatiality, Temporality and Causality in the Anthropocene
Action Incontinence: Dark Pedagogy in the Anthropocene
References
Chapter 7: Dark Labour
Educational Monopolies
The Facticity of Production in Education
The Transmutation of Production and Negation of the Negative
Education in the Mirror of Production
Production’s Role in the Making of the ‘Educacene’
On the Nightside of Production
Inhuman Reversal
The Inhuman Transmutation of the Educational Real
Conclusion: ‘But What Will We Do?’
References
Chapter 8: Cosmology and the Anthropocene: Speculative-Educative-Artistic Practices for a Planetary Consciousness
Ecomodernist Humanism
Posthumanist and Posthuman Tensions
Cosmology
Contemporary Cosmic Artisans of the Anthropocene: Culling a Pedagogy … of Sorts
Sequel to Come?
References
Chapter 9: Lying on the Ground: Aesthetic Learning Processes in the Anthropocene
Prologue
Introduction
Presentation of the Chapter
I. Aesthetic Learning Processes in Scandinavian Education
ALPs as a Mode of Production
ALPs as a Mode of Reception
II. Aesthetic Learning Processes as Attunement: Lying on the Ground
The Bodies
The Little Death of the Self
Attunement as an Aesthetic Mode of Connecting
ALPs as a Mode of Attunement
III. Proposition for Aesthetic Learning Processes in the Anthropocene
Propositions
Conclusion
References
Part III: Interspecies Inclusion and Environmental Literacy
Chapter 10: Embodying the Earth: Environmental Pedagogy, Re-wilding Waterscapes and Human Consciousness
Embodying Knowledge: An Introduction
Locating Time, Place, Water Literacy and Posthumanism
From Wild, to Tame to Re-wilding
Student Participatory Engagement: Concepts, Context and Practice
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: To Love and Be Loved in Return: Toward a Post-Anthropocene Pedagogy and Humanity
Introduction
Part I: What Is Most Lacking in the Anthropocene
Two Understandings of the Anthropocene
Two Responses
Assessment of the Two Responses
What Has Been Forgotten in Holocene Earth-Forgetfulness
Part II: Conceptualization of Interspecies Life Communities and Dialogical Relations Between Humans and More-Than-Humans
Part III: Toward a Dialogical and Zoëlogical Understanding of the School
Conclusions
References
Chapter 12: Planetarianism Now: On Anticipatory Imagination, Young People’s Literature, and Hope for the Planet
Dreaming Despair: The Present Moment and the Rise of Dystopia
Dreaming Hope: Planetarianism and the Way Forward
Planetarianism NOW
References
Chapter 13: To Learn a World: Human-Machine Entanglements as Pedagogy for the Anthropocene
Artificial Intelligence as a Metaphysically Subversive Figure
Science Fiction as Pedagogy for Worlding
Suggested Corpus of AI Fictions
The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (2019)
“Warmth” by Geoff Ryman (2005)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (2015)
Conclusion
References
Part IV: Critical Rethinking and Future Practices
Chapter 14: Ethical Grounding of Critical Place-Based Education in the Anthropocene
Critical Thinking—An Issue of Skills or Normativity?
The Bowers–Greenwood Exchange
Critical Thinking in Greenwood’s Critical Pedagogy of Place
Critical Thinking in Bowers’ Account
Why Ask for Ethical Grounding?
Normative Foundations of Critique Within Critical Theory
Immanent Critique
Communicative Rationality
Relations and Connectedness
#Fridays for Future Climate Strikes
Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 15: Educating for Sustainability in an Anti-education State: Critical Thinking in a Rural Science Classroom
Introduction
Rural Geographies
Rural Education in the United States
Climate in the Classroom
Pivot Toward Opportunities
Conclusion
References
Legislation Cited
Chapter 16: Ecopedagogy in the Anthropocene: A Defence of the Classical Paideia
Introduction
The Ecopedagogical Movement
Ecology and Classical Antiquity
What Is Classical Paideia?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 17: Sowing the Seeds of the Pollination Academy: Exploring Mycelic Pedagogies in the Anthropocene
Introduction: Inhabiting the Critical Zone Around an Inverted (Anthropocene) Vortex
Map.Learn.Repeat. Based on Depression
Education Always Happens in Places: Learning Is Always an Agential Apparatus in the Wound of the World (Even in an Old Reworked and Buried Swamp)
The ‘People’: We Never Know Who We Are; We’re Many More
Participation: Every Time You Think You Know How to Participate in Learning, Ask Again
Entanglement Is Fiery; Fire Is Passion and Grows in the Encounter: As Do Ghosts
Discussion: Value (Prosperity) Is Always an Ontological—and Political—Question
Concluding Remarks
References
Websites and Blogs
Chapter 18: Outro
Outro 1: Somebody Save Us!?
Outro 2: Live Life!
Outro 3: Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes
Index
