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Mycock, K (2019) Forest schools: moving towards an alternative pedagogical response to the Anthropocene? Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 1 - 14. ISSN 0159-6306
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Abstract
In this paper I consider whether forest schools provide a space where we could rethink pedagogy in the Anthropocene. I explore the challenges and possibilities of thinking beyond the business-as-usual of human-centric pedagogies drawing upon an ethnographic study of two forest schools, located in the West Midlands of England conducted in 2014-2015. I take a more-than-social approach, which moves beyond narrow essentialist constructions of nature and childhood (see Kraftl, 2013). I use both Barad’s (2007) theory of agential realism, to explore children’s lively intra-actions with more-than-humans at forest school, and Haraway’s (2016) concept of worlding, to examine collective world making and remarking. Through this conceptual framing I explore whether forest schools are or could become a space for more-than-social pedagogies in which children might imagine and care for other worlds. If so, how might this kind of other-world imagining and caring gesture towards an alternative pedagogical response to the Anthropocene?
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | The final version of this accepted manuscript is available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2019.1670446 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Anthropocene, children, forest school, pedagogy, more-than-human, more-than-social |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2019 07:38 |
Last Modified: | 23 Mar 2021 01:30 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/6922 |