Book chapter
Conceptualizing parent(ing) childhoodnature through significant life experience
Research handbook on childhoodnature: assemblages of childhood and nature research, pp.953 - 978
Springer international handbooks of education, Springer International
2020
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Abstract
This chapter explores the roles, responsibilities, conceptualizations, and practices of parenting, through the findings of a study into childhoodnature. Childhoodnature is an emerging concept within the field of environmental education that espouses there are no boundaries between childhood and nature and that even separating the words implies a binary exists. Utilizing an autoethnographic approach and founded in posthumanism and socioecological theories, this chapter seeks to address the paucity of research that exists about parenting in environmental education and offers methodological, theoretical, and practical approaches to parenting in this context. The findings indicate that through adopting an honest, reflective approach and having a willingness to change, the perceived barriers to parenting childhoodnature can be reconstructed, reimagined, and reconceptualized.
Details
- Title
- Conceptualizing parent(ing) childhoodnature through significant life experience
- Creators
- Simone Miranda Blom (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (Editor of compilation) - Southern Cross UniversityKaren Malone (Editor of compilation) - Southern Cross UniversityElisabeth Barratt Hacking (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Research handbook on childhoodnature: assemblages of childhood and nature research, pp.953 - 978
- Series
- Springer international handbooks of education
- Publisher
- Springer International
- Identifiers
- 991012856300002368
- Copyright
- © 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education; School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter