Learning from a more-than-human perspective. Plants as teachers

Modern philosophy have categorized the enlightened human as the exclusive holder of reason. The modern notion of learning established an unbridgeable gap between human ways of learning and those of "non-humans." We assume that learning is a skill of all organisms and not an exclusively hum...

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Published in:The Journal of environmental education 2020-03, Vol.51 (2), p.144-155
Main Authors: Carvalho, Isabel Cristina de Moura, Steil, Carlos Alberto, Gonzaga, Francisco Abrahão
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ceremonies
Empirical analysis
Environmental education
Ethnography
Flowers & plants
Humanism
Indigenous Knowledge
indigenous peoples
Indigenous Populations
indigenous shamanism
Learning
Learning Experience
more-than-human
Posthumanism
power plants
Religious Factors
Urban Areas
Urban environments
urban Shamanism
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Summary:Modern philosophy have categorized the enlightened human as the exclusive holder of reason. The modern notion of learning established an unbridgeable gap between human ways of learning and those of "non-humans." We assume that learning is a skill of all organisms and not an exclusively human prerogative. We prefer the "more-than-human" expression instead of "post-humanism." The reason is to avoid the prefix "post" and its meaning, very often teleological, evolving beyond or surpassing what was left behind. Our argument comes from an empirical analysis of ritual practices of a neo-shamanic kind based on the power of plants, found in Brazilian urban settings. We started from an ecological cosmovision where learning is a movement of life.
ISSN:0095-8964
1940-1892
DOI:10.1080/00958964.2020.1726266