TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning with children, ants, and worms in the Anthropocene: towards a common world pedagogy of multispecies vulnerability
AU - TAYLOR, Affrica
AU - pacini-ketchabaw, Veronica
PY - 2015/10/2
Y1 - 2015/10/2
N2 - This article takes the naming of the Anthropocene as a moment of pedagogical opportunity in which we might decentre the human as the sole learning subject and explore the possibilities of interspecies learning. Picking up on current Anthropocene debates within the feminist environmental humanities, it considers how educators might pedagogically engage with the issue of intergenerational environmental justice from the earliest years of learning. Drawing on two multispecies ethnographies within the authors’ Common World Childhoods' Research Collective, the article describes some encounters among young children, worms and ants in Australia and Canada. It uses these encounters to illustrate how paying close attention to our mortal entanglements and vulnerabilities with other species, no matter how small, can help us to learn with other species and rethink our place in the world
AB - This article takes the naming of the Anthropocene as a moment of pedagogical opportunity in which we might decentre the human as the sole learning subject and explore the possibilities of interspecies learning. Picking up on current Anthropocene debates within the feminist environmental humanities, it considers how educators might pedagogically engage with the issue of intergenerational environmental justice from the earliest years of learning. Drawing on two multispecies ethnographies within the authors’ Common World Childhoods' Research Collective, the article describes some encounters among young children, worms and ants in Australia and Canada. It uses these encounters to illustrate how paying close attention to our mortal entanglements and vulnerabilities with other species, no matter how small, can help us to learn with other species and rethink our place in the world
KW - interspecies learning
KW - early childhood education
KW - multispecies ethnography
KW - common world pedagogies
KW - Anthropocene
KW - ethics of vulnerability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84944515644&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/learning-children-ants-worms-anthropocene-towards-common-world-pedagogy-multispecies-vulnerability
U2 - 10.1080/14681366.2015.1039050
DO - 10.1080/14681366.2015.1039050
M3 - Article
SN - 1468-1366
VL - 23
SP - 507
EP - 529
JO - Pedagogy, Culture and Society
JF - Pedagogy, Culture and Society
IS - 4
ER -