Conference paper
Science and Sustainability Education: Rethinking the narrative
Australasian Science Education Research Association Annual Conference (Cairns, Australia, 27/06/2023 - 30/06/2023)
28/06/2023
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Abstract
Sustainability and environmental education are often taught through the Science key learning area of the curriculum or syllabus. The biological substrand accommodates much of the work students will do in learning about ecological, biological and sustainable practices and systems of the living world. However, this work is content heavy and even with the latest influx of skills-based learning approaches, there is still a vital element that students’ learning is somewhat void of in these conventional learning models; that is, that the human body is nature and not something external or separate from the natural world. Recent theoretical thinking is shifting the way humans perceive themselves with/in the natural environment and there is much potential for a shift in pedagogical practices as a result. This paper presentation explores the findings of a recent study that investigated teachers’ perceptions of nature and how it informed their pedagogy from a posthuman perspective. Posthuman thinking is gaining momentum globally as current business-as-usual approaches are failing to meet the global ecological crises the planet is experiencing. Through posthuman thinking, science education is reconsidered as a ground and context for the teaching and learning of sustainability and environmental education.
Details
- Title
- Science and Sustainability Education: Rethinking the narrative
- Creators
- Simone M Blom (Author) - Southern Cross University, Faculty of Education
- Conference
- Australasian Science Education Research Association Annual Conference (Cairns, Australia, 27/06/2023 - 30/06/2023)
- Identifiers
- 991013192313402368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper