Place, Being, Resonance
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Place, Being, Resonance

A Critical Ecohermeneutic Approach to Education

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Place, Being, Resonance

A Critical Ecohermeneutic Approach to Education

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How do we begin to move beyond a use-relation with «natural resources» towards resonance with a deeply interrelated ecology? Place, Being, Resonance brings insights from the hermeneutic tradition, ecopoetics and indigenous epistemologies of place to bear on education in a world of ecological emergency. An ecohermeneutic pedagogy draws on both critical and lyrical ways of thinking to make a free space for encountering the more-than-human other. The conventional school system has long sat at the vanguard of an ecologically exploitative worldview and something more is called for than retrofitting current practices while reinforcing the substructure of modernity. As educators we walk an existentially trying path of attending to what needs to be called into question and for what presses questions upon us. What presuppositions shape our relation with the natural world? How might we work at the level of metaphor to generate the critical distance required for analysis, while keeping hearts and minds open to encounters that might heal our estrangement? How do we learn to both read place and recognize that we are read? Utilizing fungal mycelium as a way of thinking, this inquiry inoculates the fragmented landscape of education in order to bring learning into resonance with being. Here, along the path, the attentive mind finds little bell-shaped fungi scattering the forest floor, calling us home and provoking our thinking to be deeply imaginative when it needs to be.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Year
2016
ISBN
9781453916568
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education Theory & Practice

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. contents
  3. acknowledgments
  4. some notes on terminology
  5. introduction—how to love black snow (David W. Jardine)
  6. chapter one—this is the mystery: meaning
  7. chapter two—mycelia & the hermeneutics beneath us
  8. chapter three—the ecopoetics of education
  9. chapter four—metaphor & thinking with this bird
  10. chapter five—inoculating hermeneutics: Heidegger substrates
  11. chapter six—inoculating hermeneutics: Gadamer substrates
  12. chapter seven—hermeneutics deep in the clearcut
  13. chapter eight—re-indigenization & the ethics of home-making
  14. chapter nine conclusion: a tree of meaning
  15. references