Supporting research in Education Studies
Supporting research in Education Studies
This paper explores the potential of eco-pedagogies for fostering new environmental and consumption imaginaries. It departs from the Anthropocene to posthumanism, using Karen Barad’s posthumanist quantum entanglements as a way to understand how our lives are enmeshed with commercial and carbon consumption cultures. Two case studies are presented aiming to…
‘And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work ‘em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow. Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay, That made the breeze to blow!’ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner…
This paper responds to the call for reflection on the future of Education Studies by considering possible impacts of the relatively recent proposition that we are living in The Anthropocene. Many scholars from multiple disciplines concerned with climate change now consider that the impact of humankind on the Earth and…
The proposition that human agency has shaped and modified Earth systems so extensively that we have entered a new geological epoch named the Anthropocene is attracting increasing research and scholarly interest not only within the natural sciences, but also across the social sciences and humanities. It therefore seems timely to…