Pedagogy

This note is about pedagogy. As such, it relates to Teaching and Learning.

Cf.

  • Astroethical education
  • Biocentric education
  • Ecocentric education
  • Ecological education
  • Ecojustice education
  • Earth-centred pedagogy
  • Environmental education
  • Future literacy education
  • Gaian pedagogy
  • Geoethical education
  • Green pedagogy
  • Inter-species pedagogy
  • More-than-human pedagogy
  • Multispecies education
  • Multispecies pedagogy
  • Nature-centred education
  • Non-anthropocentric pedagogy
  • Planetary education
  • Posthuman pedagogy
  • Relational pedagogy
  • Sustainability education
  • Wild Pedagogies

Opportunities of Ecocentric Education

Kopnina, Helen. 2019. “Ecocentric Education.” In Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education, edited by Walter Leal Filho, 419–80. Cham: Springer.

Problems with Human education

Cf. curriculum violence: academic programming which compromises the intellectual or psychological well-being of learners (or others).

Problems with Critical Traditional

Freire figures nonhuman animals in three main ways: as non-communicative and non- dialogical, as non-agential and non-transforming, and as without history or culture.

Corman, Lauren. “Impossible Subjects: The Figure of the Animal in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, no. 16 (2011): 29–45.

Acampora, Ralph. “Zoögogy of the Oppressed.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 18, no. 1 (2021): 4–18.

More-than-Human Approaches and Pedagogy

Edwards, Ferne, and Ida Nilstad Pettersen. 2023. “Speculative Design for Envisioning More-than-Human Futures in Desirable Counter-Cities.” Cities 142:104553. https://doi.org/10/gsqcx9.

Eriksson, Eva, Daisy Yoo, Tilde Bekker, and Elisabet M. Nilsson. 2024. “More-than-Human Perspectives in Human-Computer Interaction Research: A Scoping Review.” In Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 1–18. NordiCHI ’24. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10/g8kv92.

Jukes, Scott, and Ya Reeves. 2020. “More-than-Human Stories: Experimental Co-Productions in Outdoor Environmental Education Pedagogy.” Environmental Education Research 26 (9–10): 1294–1312. https://doi.org/10/ggnwvg.

Poikolainen Rosén, Anton, Antti Salovaara, Andrea Botero, and Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, eds. 2025. More-than-Human Design in Practice. London: Routledge.

References

Carvalho, Isabel Cristina de Moura, Carlos Alberto Steil, and Francisco Abrahão Gonzaga. 2020. “Learning from a More-than-Human Perspective. Plants as Teachers.” The Journal of Environmental Education 51 (2): 144–55. https://doi.org/10/gscb6m.

Hill, Cher, Neva Whintors, and Rick Bailey. 2022. “We Are the Salmon Family: Inviting Reciprocal and Respectful Pedagogical Encounters with the Land.” Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning 8 (4): 1–22. https://doi.org/10/g9r6vc.

Pérez, Daniel R., and Laísa M. Freire. 2024. “Restoration-Based Education: A Brief Overview of a Field under Construction.” Restoration Ecology 32 (1): e13983. https://doi.org/10/g9r6t6.

Sidebottom, Kay, and Lou Mycroft. 2024. “[Birdsong]: Pedagogies of Attunement and Surrender with More-than-Human Teachers.” Australian Journal of Environmental Education 40 (2): 143–56. https://doi.org/10/g9r6t8.


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