Multispecies Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond

Patty Born

doi:10.5771/9781666916676

Summary

Sustainability education has typically centered the human-focusing on the changes and paradigm shifts needed to ensure a sustainable future for humans. Yet nonhuman beings, specifically plants and animals, are and have always been central to our lives, prompting wonder, curiosity, sensitivity and awe, as well as being important in their own right. In Multispecies Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond: Teaching for a Sustainable Future the contributors discuss the importance of seeking a more inclusive, more just, and ultimately a more hopeful future. They consider how everyday, entanglements with plants and animals can challenge us and expand our worldview. The contributors consider the importance of reciprocal relationships with plants and animals and provide practical strategies, approaches, and examples of how that looks in practice in all types of educational settings.

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-66691-666-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1667-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 174
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. 1. Figures No access
  2. Tables No access
1. References No access
1. 1. 1. Relational Terminology No access
    2. Multispecies Justice and Critical Posthumanism No access
    3. Contradictory Child–Animal Relations No access
    4. Disrupting Child–Animal Relations No access
    5. Animalizing Childhoods and Socializing Animalhoods No access
    6. Human–Animal Relations No access
  2. Concluding Comments No access
  3. References No access
2. 1. 1. Toward Agroecological Cuisine No access
  2. Note No access
  3. References No access
3. 1. 1. Nature and Children with Differing Abilities No access
    2. Related Issues and Concerns No access
    3. Animals as Affordances No access
    4. Animals as Social Lubricants No access
    5. Animal-Assisted Interventions No access
  2. Animals and the Gifts They Bring No access
  3. References No access
1. 1. 1. 1. Ecoliteracy and Critical Literacy No access
      2. Developing Critical Ecoliteracy Practices with Children No access
      3. Processing Questions and Big Feelings No access
      4. Going Local No access
      5. Alternative Perspectives No access
      6. Juxtaposing No access
  2. Conclusion No access
  3. Appendix A No access
  4. Children’s Literature Texts Cited No access
  5. References No access
2. 1. The Dead Bird No access
  2. Environmental Kinship Learning Tag No access
  3. Environmental Kinship Learning Tags No access
  4. Dead Squirrels No access
  5. Environmental Kinship Learning Tag No access
  6. Environmental Kinship Learning Tag No access
  7. 1. An Excerpt from the Environmental Kinship No access
  8. We Found a Dead Possum No access
  9. Environmental Kinship Learning Tags No access
  10. Note No access
  11. References No access
3. 1. 1. Important Ideas No access
    2. Empathies No access
    3. It’s Not All Bad No access
    4. Related Concepts No access
    5. Pathways to Better Relationships No access
    6. Possible Pathways No access
    7. Promising Pedagogies and Research No access
    8. Designers and Researchers No access
  2. Conclusion: We Can Do Better No access
  3. References No access
4. 1. 1. 1. Child–Animal Interactions in Early Childhood No access
    2. Influence of Multispecies Ethnography on the Approach to Observation No access
    3. How Can Educators Use a Multispecies Approach to Observation? No access
    4. Walking and Tracking with Children No access
    5. Observing and Listening No access
    6. Attending to Children’s Dramatic Play No access
    7. Perspective-Taking as Multispecies Attunement No access
  2. Conclusion No access
  3. Note No access
  4. References No access
1. 1. 1. 1. Partnership History No access
      2. Junior Ranger Conceptual Structure No access
  2. Education for Multispecies Flourishing No access
  3. Our Educational Approach No access
  4. Spots of Sunshine: Elementary Students’ Reflective Drawings No access
  5. Metaphorical Clearings: University Students’ Reflections on Field Experiences No access
  6. A Fusion of Horizons No access
  7. Refiguring: Listening and Being Listened to by the Land No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Acknowledgments No access
  10. References No access
2. 1. References No access
  2. Suggested Resources No access
3. 1. 1. Canada Goose No access
    2. Black-Capped Chickadee No access
    3. Frequent Encounters with Dogs No access
    4. Dog Kin No access
    5. Teacher–Dog Co-Teachers No access
    6. Reflections on Child–Animal Relations No access
  2. Conclusion No access
  3. Note No access
  4. References No access
Index No access Pages 161 - 166
About the Contributors No access Pages 167 - 174