Book chapter
Big (Hi)Story: Experimenting with Deep-Time
Arts-Based Thought Experiments for a Posthuman Earth: A Touchstones Companion, pp.82-100
Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research, Volume: 16, Brill, First edition
2022
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Abstract
This chapter explores the significance of the deep-time story of the universe to environmental education, reimagining the place of socioecological learning within the contexts of the evolving deep-time scientific story and the Anthropocene. We use the concept of ‘journey’ as the metaphor to transcend ‘in-between’ entanglements (, ) of place/deep-time, adding richer layers of intuitive understandings to the existing scientific evidence on this subject. We incorporate arts-based forms through imagery, photography, art, prose, poetic dialogue and reflective discourse to forge broader perspectives, new connections and understandings of interdependence within the increasing unfoldings of our complex universe. The 13.8-billion-year Big History framework is reviewed through three pivotal signposts in time. The interconnected signposts traverse the flaring forth of the universe and its boundless possibilities, continuing its projectory through the emergence of elements as building blocks for non-living matter, nature, creatures, humans and the ticking clock of future possibilities for everyThing and everyOne. Our hope is that our intuitive interpretations of the scientific universe story resonate with socioecological learning, thus empowering hope and agency, in encompassing all aspects of the environment, the ‘non-human’, the ‘human’ and the ‘more-than-human’.
Details
- Title
- Big (Hi)Story: Experimenting with Deep-Time
- Creators
- Marilyn Ahearn - Southern Cross University, Faculty of EducationTeresa Carapeto - Southern Cross University, Faculty of Education
- Publication Details
- Arts-Based Thought Experiments for a Posthuman Earth: A Touchstones Companion, pp.82-100
- Series
- Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research, Volume: 16
- Publisher
- Brill
- Edition
- First edition
- Identifiers
- 991013180413702368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter