Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning: The Anthropocene, Posthumanism and Common Worlds as Creative Milieux

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This book focuses on socioecological learning through the touchstone concepts of the Anthropocene, the Posthuman and Common Worlds as Creative Milieux. The editors and contributors explore, situate and interrogate social learning through transdisciplinary positionings, exemplars and theories. The eclectic and cohesive chapters unfold as a journey that may inspire innovative and unique understandings of the socioecological learner: insights that will surely be paramount as we careen towards the 22nd century and all of its as-yet-unknown challenges. Offering tangible and nuanced practice for educational leadership in socioecological learning, this pioneering book will be of interest and value to researchers and educators at all levels. This volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of socioecological learning as well as the Anthropocene and the Posthuman. Foreword Acknowledgments Contents Contributors List of Figures List of Tables 1: Touchstones for Deterritorializing the Socioecological Learner Clearing the Socioecological Ground De-imagining the Socioecological Touchstone 1: Anthropocene Touchstone 2: Posthumanism Touchstone 3: Common Worlds Creative Milieux Conclusion References 2: Posthumanist Learning: Nature as Event Learning and Childhood Nature as Event: Putting Posthumanist Learning Concepts to Work De-centring or Deterritorializing the Human Interview with a Tree: De-centring or Deterritorializing the Human De-bifurcation of Nature The Creatures in the Lake: The De-bifurcation of Nature Entanglements with the More-Than-Human Learning with Kosi the Pedadog: Entanglements with the More-Than-Human Attuning with the Affective, Material and Unknown The Entity of a River: Attuning with the Affective, Material and Unknown Conclusion References 3: The Socioecological (Un)learner: Unlearning Binary Oppositions and the Wicked Problems of the Anthropocene Introduction Learning in the Anthropocene Unlearning in the Anthropocene Monistic Dualism and the Anthropocene A Heuristic Model for Unlearning Binary Oppositions Unlearning the Socioecological Dualisms of the Anthropocene Contiguity Relationality Contextuality Conclusion References 4: The Risky Socioecological Learner Overview of the Chapter Introduction The Rise of the Risk-Averse Culture Risk Aversion in Education Causes of Risk Aversion in Education Neoliberal Governance Structures in Education Teachers as a Risk-Averse Cohort Consequences of Risk Aversion in Education Disembodied Learning Disempowered Students Vignettes: Risk Aversion and Negative Educational Outcomes Vignette 1: Judith Vignette 2: Angela Where to from Here with Risk? What Can Be Gained from an Expanded Concept of Risk in Education? References 5: “It is not a question of either/or, but of ‘and … and’”: The Socioecological Learner as Learner-Teacher-Researcher Introduction Learner as Teacher Learner as Researcher Formalising the Socioecological Learner as Expert: “Toward Young Children as Active Researchers” From ‘Socio-’ and ‘-Ecological’ to ‘Socioecological’: From ‘Learner’ and ‘Teacher’ and ‘Researcher’ to ‘Learner-Teacher-Researcher’ References 6: The Socioecological Learner in Big History: Post-Anthropocene Imageries Introduction Placing the Scientific Origin Story in Education and Socioecological Learning Antidisciplinary Approach and Big History Whole Systems Thinking and Worldviews in Big History Agency and Possibility of Transformative Thinking in Big History Research Methodology Post-Anthropocene Imaginaries Imaginaries One: Big History Is More-Than-Human Imaginaries Two: Big History Metanarratives Imaginaries Three: Antidisciplinary Learning Through Big History Imaginaries Four: Whole-Systems and Worldviews in Big History Imaginaries Five: Agency and Possibility of Transformative Thinking in Big History Conclusion: Aligning the Big History Story to the Socioecological Learner—An Evolving Story References 7: Site/Sight/Insight: Becoming a Socioecological Learner Through Collaborative Artmaking Practices Orientation A Biosocial Ecology of Sensation New Life Sciences and the Larval Subject Collaborative Arts Practices C/a/r/tographies of Site/Sight/Insight Conclusions: Learning to Be Affected References 8: De-imagining and Reinvigorating Learning with/in/as/for Community, Through Self, Other and Place Introduction Defining Community Background Recognised Benefits of Learning with/in/as/for Community Loss of Community Connections Calls to Strengthen Community De-imagining Community Within Socioecological Learning The Nature of Community Online Communities Research Stories De-imagining and Re-invigorating Community Partnership Opportunities: Maia’s Story Re-positioning the Teacher as Learner De-imagining and Re-invigorating Community Partnerships Parent(ing) with/as Nature/Community Learning: Simone’s Story Personal Conceptions of Nature/Self Perceived Barriers to Parent(ing) Community Socioecological Learning Re-establishing the Parent(ing) with/as Nature Foundations Online Communities as Socioecological Learning: Claudio’s Story Distributed Learning, Heutagogy, and Socioecological Learning in Online Communities Mountains and Adolescent Assemblages for Socioecological Community Learning: Helen’s Story Mountains as Lively and Agentic Summary of Research Stories Conclusion References 9: Socioecological Learners as Agentic: A Posthumanist Perspective Introduction Conceptualising Agency Through a Poststructuralist Lens Power Discourse Freedom, Resistance, and Language Vignette 1 Reconceptualising Agency Through a Posthumanist Lens Vignette 2 Vignette 3 Conclusions References 10: Un/Folding Socioecological Learning: An Aesthetic Portrayal Orientation Folding-Unfolding Socioecological Learning Creative Milieux Put to Work Through Enabling Constraints Six-Word Memoirs for Socioecological Learning: A Visual Essay Lexi: Common Worlds/Posthumanism Amy: Posthumanism Wendy: The Anthropocene Angela: The Anthropocene Marianne: The Anthropocene/Posthumanism Judith: Common Worlds Last Words References Afterword: Green Shoots in the Shadow References Index