- Title
- Thinking with a landscape : engaging with environmental issues through outdoor education
- Creator
- Jukes, Scott
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/195152
- Identifier
- vital:18479
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34200-4_6
- Identifier
- ISBN: 978-3-031-34200-4
- Abstract
- In this chapter, I propose the possibility of thinking with a landscape as a pedagogical concept, inspired by posthumanist theory. I enact this concept in the Australian Alps, concentrating on the contentious environmental dilemma involving introduced horses and their management in this bio-geographical location. The topic of horses is of pedagogical relevance for place-responsive outdoor environmental educators as both a location-specific problem and an example of a troubling issue. The chapter has two objectives for employing posthumanist thinking. Firstly, it experiments with the alternative methodological possibilities that posthumanist theory affords for OEE, including new ways of conducting educational research. Secondly, it explores how thinking with a landscape as a pedagogical concept may help open ways of considering the dilemma that horses pose. The pedagogical concept is enacted through some empirical events which sketch human-horse encounters from the Australian Alps. These sketches depict some of the pedagogical conversations and discursive pathways that encounters can provoke. Such encounters and conversations are ways of constructing knowledge of the landscape, covering multiple species, perspectives and discursive opportunities. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
- Relation
- Learning to confront ecological precarity : engaging with more-than-human worlds Chapter 6 p. 85-111
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ The Editor(s) (if applicable) under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
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