What World Is Knocking? Responding to a World in Crisis with Polyphonic Storying

The case has been made — many of the approaches humans employ to address environmental collapse are founded on the very (White, Western, colonial, positivist, capitalist, human supremacist) thinking that advanced planetary degradation in the first place. We know how this story ends. If we continue p...

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Published in:Australian journal of environmental education 2024-04, Vol.40 (2), p.322-339
Main Author: Molloy Murphy, Angela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actors
Environmental education
Environmental management
Informal Education
Learning Theories
Narratives
Qualitative research
Young Children
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Summary:The case has been made — many of the approaches humans employ to address environmental collapse are founded on the very (White, Western, colonial, positivist, capitalist, human supremacist) thinking that advanced planetary degradation in the first place. We know how this story ends. If we continue perpetuating narratives of management, mastery and (White) human supremacy through environmental education (EE) and confront environmental issues accordingly, we will only advance Earth’s demise. Only by countering narratives of human exceptionalism and acknowledging the entangled and deeply relational nature of our existence can we begin to envision worlds of care for all. Reconceptualising EE as a polyphonic storying of relations with the more-than-human “keeps the way open” for humans to reassess our role in the world.
ISSN:0814-0626
2049-775X
DOI:10.1017/aee.2024.33