In following children’s relations with other species, our research works against the premises of exclusive human agency and paramount human interests. Instead it draws upon frameworks and methodologies that re-focus upon child/plant/animal interactions, entanglements and co-shapings. These include multispecies ethnographies, multi-sensory and affect-focused methods, and textual methods that examine the role of child/animal/plant narratives and deconstruct their discursive formations and effects. Much of this research responds to colonial and ecological legacies, such as the anthropogenic escalation of species extinctions, which provide context to contemporary children’s relations with other species. It seeks news ways of fostering ethical, recuperative and flourishing multispecies futures.
MICROBLOGS
- How does grappling with ongoing inheritances co-create liveable futures? 
- What if world politicians knew as much as children about ‘common worlding’ in the Anthropocene?
- How might the openings proposed by an event be sustained as a way of inhabiting possibility for difference?
- How might otherwise food pedagogies endure hyper sanitization and fear of contamination in viral times?
- What is our pedagogical response-ability in the face of climate and pandemic crises?
- Why is it so challenging to understand the agency of the material world and other beings?
- How might education be reimagined around the future survival of the planet?
- How do you reawake a river mill?
- How is solidarity not solid?
- How might we listen to songbirds?
PROJECTS
