Vulnerable Reading Practices for Ecosocial Justice in Environmental Education

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Title: Vulnerable Reading Practices for Ecosocial Justice in Environmental Education
Language: English
Authors: Karen Nociti (ORCID 0000-0002-6846-611X), Mindy Blaise (ORCID 0000-0003-2476-9407)
Source: Environmental Education Research. 2024 30(9):1571-1586.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 16
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Early Childhood Education, Ecology, Decolonization, Feminism, Social Justice, Reader Text Relationship, Place Based Education
Geographic Terms: Australia
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2024.2349274
ISSN: 1350-4622
1469-5871
Abstract: Environmental education has the potential to extend its transformative potential by reframing social and ecological justice as always interconnected. This paper introduces vulnerable reading as a method for unsettling anthropocentric and colonial influences on how educators conceptualise and respond to environmental precarity through a socio-ecological lens. It has emerged from a six-month walking project during which the authors developed vulnerable reading practices as they walked with young children, educators, and a weedy landscape in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia. With a focus on reimagining pedagogies to be inclusive of multiple weedy ideas, bodies and voices, the paper uses empirical examples of practice to illustrate how vulnerable reading across temporalities, scales, disciplines, and genres draws attention to the complex relations humans share with weedy worlds. The paper shows how vulnerable reading is a feminist and anticolonial practice that makes visible the complexity of relations humans share with more-than-human worlds and is an example of ecosocial justice in action.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2024
Accession Number: EJ1435655
Database: ERIC
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