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Teachers Perceptions and Pedagogies With/as Nature: Exploring Environmental Education Possibilities in the Primary School Classroom Through a Posthuman Perspective
2024 European Conference for Educational Research (Nicosia, Cyprus, 27/08/2024–30/08/2024)
27/08/2024
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Abstract
This paper explores Australian primary school years teachers’ perceptions of nature and how this informs pedagogy through a posthuman theoretical framework that is informed by and an entanglement of three posthuman concepts: material-discursive practices (Barad, 2007), affective atmospheres (Ash & Anderson, 2015) and childhoodnature (Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles et al., 2020). This theoretical entanglement purposefully disrupts dichotomies and rejects abuse to marginalised others such as First Nations Peoples, children and nonhuman nature. Such disruptions challenge conventional ways of knowing and being and offer opportunities and possibilities for the reconceptualisation of future learning in environmental education and education more broadly. Moreover, this study adopted a creative methodological approach; a diffractive-ethnographic approach to transqualitative inquiry, that is generative and not reductive, to extend thinking and knowledge in innovative and transformative ways.
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- Title
- Teachers Perceptions and Pedagogies With/as Nature: Exploring Environmental Education Possibilities in the Primary School Classroom Through a Posthuman Perspective
- Creators
- Simone M Blom - Southern Cross University
- Conference
- 2024 European Conference for Educational Research (Nicosia, Cyprus, 27/08/2024–30/08/2024)
- Identifiers
- 991013364960902368
- Copyright
- © European Educational Research Association
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation