Restorying Environmental Education
Figurations, Fictions, and Feral Subjectivities
Authors: Adsit-Morris, Chessa
Free Preview- Draws upon new materialist theories to address environmental education and ecological thought
- Attempts to explore the implications for educational theory and provides concrete real-world example of theory in practice
- Makes complex theories approachable and understandable by exploring autobiographical stories of educational development and understanding, helping to foster a tangible relationship between theory and practice
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- About this book
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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 Barad, Adsit-Morris considers the co-constitutive materiality of human corporeality and nonhuman natures and provides useful tools for finding creative theoretical alternatives to the reductionist, representationalist, and dualistic practices of the Western metaphysics.
- About the authors
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Chessa Adsit-Morris is a curriculum theorist and member of the Center for Creative Ecologies. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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How to Create Human Humus Instead of Human Hubris
Pages 1-14
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A Cartographic Mapping Practice: Environmental Education, the Material/Discursive, and a New Materialist Praxis
Pages 15-41
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Bag-lady Storytelling: The Carrier-bag Theory of Fiction as Research Praxis
Pages 43-54
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Doing: Exploring the Lost Streams of Vancouver Through Eco-Art
Pages 55-77
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Thinking: A Narrative Inquiry into Possible Figurations and Multiple Modes of Ecological Thought
Pages 79-115
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Restorying Environmental Education
- Book Subtitle
- Figurations, Fictions, and Feral Subjectivities
- Authors
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- Chessa Adsit-Morris
- Series Title
- Curriculum Studies Worldwide
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-48796-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-48796-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-48795-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 151
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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