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Wild Pedagogies: Six Initial Touchstones for Early Childhood Environmental Educators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2018

Bob Jickling ,
Sean Blenkinsop ,
Marcus Morse  and
Aage Jensen
Bob Jickling*
Affiliation:
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Sean Blenkinsop
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Marcus Morse
Affiliation:
Latrobe University in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Aage Jensen
Affiliation:
Nord-Trøndelag University, Bodø, Norway
*
Address for correspondence: Bob Jickling, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, CanadaP7B 5E1. Email: bob.jickling@lakeheadu.ca
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Abstract

This article is a small piece of a much larger and still evolving project. Herein we focus on six touchstones for wild pedagogies. The article begins with a short orientation to the larger ideas behind the project and then focuses on exploring six current touchstones with a view towards early childhood environmental educators. The six explored here are: (1) agency and the role of nature as co-teacher; (2) wildness and challenging ideas of control; (3) complexity, the unknown, and spontaneity; (4) locating the wild; (5) time and practice; and (6) cultural change.

Keywords

environmental educationenvironmentpedagogieswildwildnessagencycontroltimepracticechange
Type
Feature Articles
Information
Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 34 , Special Issue 2: Ecologising Education: Storying, Philosophising and Disrupting , July 2018 , pp. 159 - 171
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2018 

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