1st Edition

New Materialisms and Environmental Education

Edited By David A. G. Clarke, Jamie Mcphie Copyright 2024
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

‘New materialisms’ refers to a broad, contemporary, and significant movement of thought across the social sciences and cultural studies which attempts to (re)turn to, renew, or create alternative philosophies of matter. Such philosophies spring from multiple sources but are in general an attempt to bring the indissolubility of the social and environmental more forcefully into our analytical... Read more

Preface

1. Introduction—Tensions, knots, and lines of flight: themes and directions of travel for new materialisms and environmental education

David A. G. Clarke and Jamie Mcphie

2. From action to intra-action? Agency, identity and ‘goals’ in a relational approach to climate change education

Blanche Verlie and CCR 15

3. Entangled threads and crafted meanings: students’ learning for sustainability in remake activities

Hanna Hofverberg

4. More-than-human stories: experimental co-productions in outdoor environmental education pedagogy

Scott Jukes and Ya Reeves

5. Informal environmental learning: the sustaining nature of daily child/water/dirt relations

Sarah Crinall and Margaret Somerville

6. What if schools were lively more-than-human agencements all along? Troubling environmental education with moldschools

Tuure Tammi

7. ‘An atmosphere, an air, a life:’ Deleuze, elemental media, and more-than-human environmental subjectification and education

Marcelina Piotrowski

8. Re-assembling environmental and sustainability education: orientations from New Materialism

Greg Mannion

9. Fieldnotes and situational analysis in environmental education research: experiments in new materialism

Andy Ruck and Greg Mannion

10. Doing little justices: speculative propositions for an immanent environmental ethics

David Rousell

11. Painting trees in the wind: socio-material ambiguity and sustainability politics in early childhood education with refugee children in Denmark

Nanna Jordt Jørgensen and Asger Martiny-Bruun

12. Challenging amnesias: re-collecting feminist new materialism/ecofeminism/climate/education

Annette Gough and Hilary Whitehouse

13. Anthropocentrism’s fluid binary

Ramsey Affifi

14. Dark pedagogy: speculative realism and environmental and sustainability education

Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard and Stefan Bengtsson

15. Dark places: environmental education research in a world of hyperobjects

Antti Saari and John Mullen

16. Environmental end game: ontos

Chris Beeman and Sean Blenkinsop

17. Words (are) matter: generating material-semiotic lines of flight in environmental education research assemblages (with a little help from SF)

Noel Gough and Chessa Adsit-Morris

18. Nature matters: diffracting a keystone concept of environmental education research – just for kicks

Jamie Mcphie and David A. G. Clarke

Biography

David A. G. Clarke lectures in Environmental Education at the University of Edinburgh (UK). He is a member of the University’s Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry (CCRI), and the Sustainability in Education Research Group (SIERG). His academic interests traverse education, creative inquiry, life experience, and ethics in the Anthropocene.

Jamie Mcphie's work traverses Health, Environmental Humanities, and Experiential Education. He is a co-theme lead for one of the Learning, Education and Development Research Centre themes based at the University of Cumbria (UK). His research interests include therapeutic landscapes, environmental ethics, contemporary animisms, posthumanism and psychogeography. He recently authored the book Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Inquiry (2019).