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‘Attuning-with’, affect, and assemblages of relations in a transdisciplinary environmental education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2020

Kathryn Riley Open the ORCID record for Kathryn Riley [Opens in a new window]  and
Peta White Open the ORCID record for Peta White [Opens in a new window]
Kathryn Riley
Affiliation:
Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Peta White*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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*Corresponding author. Email: peta.white@deakin.edu.au
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Abstract

In these Anthropocene times humans are vulnerable through the effects of socio-ecological crises and are responsible for attending to past, present and future socio-ecological injustices and challenges. The purpose of this article is to challenge discursive structures that influence knowledge acquisition about/of the world through binary logics, acknowledging that we are never apart from the world we are seeking to understand, but that we are entangled through a mutual (re)configuring with the world. Through storytelling and entangled poetry from outdoor education and environmental science education contexts, this article explores discursive/material forces (socially meaningful statements/affective intensities) enacted through pedagogies ‘attuning-with’. As pedagogies ‘attuning-with’ take up a relational ontology, in which sense-making is generated from the grounded, lived, embodied and embedded politics of location in relationship with broader ecologies of the world, they illuminate a transdisciplinary environmental education. A transdisciplinary environmental education is important for these Anthropocene times, because it not only promotes a multivocal approach to environmental education, but in acknowledging our inherent and intrinsic responsibility and accountability for the kinds of worlds that we are co-constituting, it provides opportunities to change the story of how we choose to live with/in/for these Anthropocene times.

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Attuning-withaffectassemblagetransdisciplinary environmental educationanthropocene
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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , November 2019 , pp. 262 - 272
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© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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