Dear BERGers and SHAIRers,
Our talk tomorrow (Weds 31 Jan, 4pm in the Psychology Common Room Cottrell, C3A94) ) will
be by Dr Kay Sidebottom, University of Stirling – see you there! (or hybrid via
Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a9823d93069124396a7a…)
Pedagogies of Attunement: Learning from More-Than-Human Teachers
Our current ecological predicament requires a shift to a post-anthropocentric educational
paradigm in which we educate for and about a world that is not ‘for us,’ but comprised of
a multitude of eco-systems of which we are simply a part. To facilitate this, education
should be enacted differently; we need to experience learning not as furthering entrenched
nature/culture binaries, but as ‘worlding’ processes, whereby imaginary divides between
individual and environment are troubled, as humans and the material world are revealed to
be relational and entangled (Braidotti, 2019). In this seminar I will share the story of a
recent research project which in which participants (both human and non-) came together to
explore what happens when we cease to privilege humans as the ultimate instructors and
holders of knowledge. In doing so we disrupted normative research methodologies, drawing
on an ethics of care and relationality which extended the ‘teacher’ role to non-human kin
such as water, plants and animals.
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