Entangled Gardens, Entangled Lives: Refiguring Presences toward an Ethics of Care and Vulnerability in Preschoolers' Multispecies Encounters
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| Title: | Entangled Gardens, Entangled Lives: Refiguring Presences toward an Ethics of Care and Vulnerability in Preschoolers' Multispecies Encounters |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Luke Muscat |
| Source: | International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education. 2026 13(1):58-75. |
| Availability: | North American Association for Environmnental Education. 1725 DeSales Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-419-0412; Web site: https://naturalstart.org/research |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | 2026 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Preschool Children, Outdoor Education, Urban Areas, Urban Environment, Gardening, Animals, Climate, Plants (Botany), Environmental Education, Learning Activities |
| ISSN: | 2331-0464 |
| Abstract: | This praxis-oriented paper draws from a yearlong multispecies ethnography of preschoolers' encounters in an urban garden through child-led documentation. Thinking-with common worlds pedagogies, I attend to young children's everyday multispecies encounters with worms, bees, and flowers and describe their embodied, affective, and relational learning-with the more-than-human that was messy and situated. Important as we navigate the environmental destruction of the Anthropocene, I share moments of children's learnings where their developing ethics of relational care and environmental vulnerability surface as hope. Seeking to unsettle disconnected, humancentric, nature-as-resource scientific learning, I mobilized a pedagogy of refiguring more-than-human presences to center human/more-than-human entanglement, interconnectedness, and interdependency. Findings narrate learning encounters and pedagogical moves through vignettes and children's documentation of photographs, drawings, and writings. [Note: The volume and issue numbers (v12 n2) shown on the PDF are incorrect. The correct volume and issue numbers are v13 n1.] |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2026 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1506103 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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