Reconsidering Children's Encounters with Nature and Place Using Posthumanism

Autor/in	Malone, Karen
Titel	Reconsidering Children's Encounters with Nature and Place Using Posthumanism
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 32 (2016) 1, S.42-56 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
DOI	10.1017/aee.2015.48
Schlagwörter	Environmental Education; Place Based Education; Outdoor Education; Children; Humanism; Foreign Countries; Wildlife; Bolivia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Freiluftunterricht; Child; Kind; Kinder; Humanismus; Ausland; Bolivien
Abstract	This article explores and reconsiders the view of children's encounters with place as central to a place-based pedagogy that seeks to dismantle rather than support constructions of a nature-culture binary. I unpack the current fervour for reinserting the child in nature and nature-based education as a significant phenomenon in environmental and outdoor education. I will draw on recent literature on place-based research and theorise using new materialist and posthumanist approaches that seek to disrupt anthropocentric views and support new ways of considering our encounters with the more-than-human world. Then, using these new approaches, I will theorise a recent place-based research project with children in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, to illustrate how it is possible to challenge current assumptions that are firmly entrenched in the child in nature movement. I will conclude by considering what intraspecies relations, place encounters and child-body-animal-place relations can teach us about questioning anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism. Finally, I consider how can we overcome these limitations of a narrow and nostalgic view of "child and nature" and reimagine a more diverse approach to education for a sustainable future. [Paper presented at the 18th AAEE Biennial Conference--Sustainability, Smart Strategies for the 21st Century.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01