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What is sustenance: Education beyond lack for our future’s renewal
PESA Conference 2023 (Auckland, New Zealand, 06/12/2023–09/12/2023)
07/12/2023
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Sustenance, regeneration and the future are brought into focus. We are now in the Anthropocene, a new geological era dominated by human action on planet Earth. The imperative to do radically different research and educating is emphasised by those who share the view changes must happen if humans are to sustain into the Anthropocene. How, where and why we educate are questions that will be at the forefront of changes in the Anthropocene, as the next generation will critically experience these transformations, for example, global warming, as they mature. A national and international educational response that is locally emergent and globally impactful is necessary to understand what to do and how to adapt in the Anthropocene. An interdisciplinary, pro- environmental program is getting to work in collaboration to investigate the theory,
methods, as well as practical and real matters for education to consider and connect in the Anthropocene. This paper is a start as an early examination of the term ‘sustenance’ in relation to the traditionally termed “sustainability” which currently underpins Australian Curriculum syllabi. A veer from qualitative into the post-qualitative turn has proliferated theoretical contributions that provide a much needed theoretical framework of heart and creativity, and marvellously messy multiplicity that enables the voices and realities of many to conjure a future together that is a renewed one to the neoliberal capital kind. We will speak to this with guidance from the First Nations scholarship of Karen Martin and Booran Miraboopa, Miriam Ungunmerr from upon unceded, colonised Australia as well as the allied scholarship of Deleuze and Guattari
Karen Barad and Margaret Somerville among others thinking for eventful planetary justice. The concept of sustenance is tantalising but why sustenance? This paper is composed with a playful nature as the programs inception to underpin and emphasise the importance of how pleasure and excess can elaborate education to
do its thing - already, always able to regenerate and renew.
Details
- Title
- What is sustenance: Education beyond lack for our future’s renewal
- Creators
- Sarah Crinall - Western Sydney UniversityDavid R Cole - Western Sydney University
- Conference
- PESA Conference 2023 (Auckland, New Zealand, 06/12/2023–09/12/2023)
- Identifiers
- 991013395348202368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Abstract