Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 1: Childhood, Environment, Indigeneity (Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures)

This volume, the first of a two volume set, addresses three major areas in response to the post-Anthropocene: childhood, environment and indigeneity. Each of these areas is broadly addressed in relation to the concerns that have arisen both theoretically and educationally. The author terms these to be encounters as each area presents a particular problematic when addressing the phase change that the planet is undergoing where the anthropogenic labour of global humanity is contributing to climate change, endangering our very existence. There has been a concerted effort to overcome the nature-culture divide in education. The author reviews this development in the first section where there has been a particular emphasis placed on childhood education. In the second section he turns to the pedagogical theories that are attempting to overcome this same divide in environmental and science education. The last section attempts to bring into the conversation the vast literature on Indigeneity and their attempts to revise traditional education to meet these extraordinary times. Preface Praise for Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 1 Contents About the Author Chapter 1: Ruminations on the Pedagogical Posthuman Landscape ‘Post’ Swimming with Fish Planetary Paideia Commons A ‘Word’ on Theory References Chapter 2: Previewing Post-Anthropocene Themes Materiality|Materialism (Yet Again) Anthropocentrism|Speciesism Environmental Education New Materialism On Diffraction Diffractive Pedagogy? Agency: Posthumanism. Posthuman. Transhuman References Part I: The ‘Last’ Child Standing: Post-Anthropocene Pedagogy Chapter 3: The Figure of the Child Das Überkind Paedomorphism References Chapter 4: The Queer Child as the Nonhuman Other Becoming-Child Orphaned References Chapter 5: The Children of the Post-Anthropocene Outdoor and Environmental Education Childhoodnatures in the Post-Anthropocene What of the Event? References Chapter 6: Variations on the Posthuman Child Querying Childhoodnature Research End of Childhood? References Chapter 7: Whiteheadian Excursions and Worries Why Whitehead? The Pedagogy of Immersive Cartography Optimism of Ecological Aesthetics Why Quarrel About Whitehead’s ‘God’? Paradoxical Musings God Again! References Part II: Becoming Indigenous in the Post-Anthropocene Chapter 8: Preliminaries: Mapping Tensions References Chapter 9: Becoming Soil Learning and Unlearning: Skin as Soil Plants, Forests, Weeds Cautionary Note References Chapter 10: Decolonizing the North Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ Vision Difficulties of Unlearning References Chapter 11: Gaian-Global War Gaia Globe Spheres Earth Planet Gaia 2.0 References Chapter 12: Pedagogy in and Among Magick, Cosmology, Animism Magick Cosmology Animism Interspecies, Toxicity, Indigeneity References Chapter 13: Raising Difficult Questions Land Perspectivism Becoming Indigenous References Chapter 14: Environmental Education, Indigeneity, and Its Challenges Environmental Education Facing Concerns Land Education Language-Land Land-We Post-Anthropocene Settler-Colonialism Summary Remarks References Index