Book chapter
“It is not a question of either/or, but of ‘and … and’”: The Socioecological Learner as Learner-Teacher-Researcher
Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning, pp.99-138
Springer International Publishing
2019
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Abstract
Conventional roles and responsibilities of the learner have placed the learner in a singular position within a hierarchy of authority and power – as the passive recipient of learning, of being taught. The socioecological learner, however, holds a special position in relation to this convention, a position mediated through a socioecological approach to understanding the world. A socioecological model provides a multi-dimensional perspective on social and ecological systems, in which interconnectedness, flow of energy and materials, linkages, relationships and feedback play central roles. It follows that the roles and responsibilities of the learner should reflect such an ecology. The demands of the Anthropocene – both as global crisis and as opportunity – present an urgent need to shift the relationships between the currently siloed hierarchical, socially constructed categories of ‘learner’, ‘teacher’ and ‘researcher’. The emergence of posthumanism provides stimulus that unsettle these conventions. The category of ‘socioecological learner’ challenges long-held presumptions around relationships between teacher, researcher, learner, participant, knowledge and data. An alternative vision is one of a postmodern and posthuman future, a future in which a milieux-contextualised shift of learner to learner-teacher-researcher encompasses a crucial shift from learner-as-human-in-society to learner–as-posthuman-in-zoe.
Details
- Title
- “It is not a question of either/or, but of ‘and … and’”: The Socioecological Learner as Learner-Teacher-Researcher
- Creators
- William E Boyd - School of Environment, Science and Engineering & Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education (SEAE) Research Cluster, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
- Publication Details
- Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning, pp.99-138
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Identifiers
- 991012926981502368
- Copyright
- (c) The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020.
- Academic Unit
- Office of the Vice Chancellor; Emeritus Faculty
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter