Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Curriculum Studies Worldwide (CSWW)
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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.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Restorying Environmental Education
Book Subtitle: Figurations, Fictions, and Feral Subjectivities
Authors: Chessa Adsit-Morris
Series Title: Curriculum Studies Worldwide
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48796-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48795-3Published: 20 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48796-0Published: 09 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6386
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6394
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 151
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Education, Environmental Sociology, Creativity and Arts Education