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Publication Date: 2020
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Forest Schools: Moving towards an Alternative Pedagogical Response to the Anthropocene?
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v41 n3 p427-440 2020
In this paper I consider whether forest schools provide a space where we could rethink pedagogy in the Anthropocene. I explore the challenges and possibilities of thinking beyond the business-as-usual of human-centric pedagogies drawing upon an ethnographic study of two forest schools, located in the West Midlands of England conducted in 2014-2015. I take a more-than-social approach, which moves beyond narrow essentialist constructions of nature and childhood. I use both Barad's theory of agential realism, to explore children's lively intra-actions with more-than-humans at forest school, and Haraway's concept of worlding, to examine collective world making and remarking. Through this conceptual framing I explore whether forest schools are or could become a space for more-than-social pedagogies in which children might imagine and care for other worlds. If so, how might this kind of other-world imagining and caring gesture towards an alternative pedagogical response to the Anthropocene?
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Teaching Methods, Natural Resources, Caring, Humanism, Children, Preadolescents, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Discovery Learning, Ecology
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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