How are common worlding pedagogies different from nature stewardship pedagogies?
Shared by AFFRICA TAYLOR, VERONICA PACINI-KETCHABAW AND MINDY BLAISE
This is the second of a five-part series of blogs – based around questions that Kathleen Kummen asked us in a video-recorded zoom conference panel session in September 2020. We edited the 2 hours session into segments, based around 5 sets of questions and answers. You’ll be able to watch the video segments via the links provided at the end of each blog post.
Kathleen asked us to talk about the misunderstandings and confusions between the work of the Common Worlds Research Collective and the nature school movement or other stewardship movements. In answer to this second question, we reflect on some of the early days of our collaboration. Affrica talks about the challenges of thinking beyond stewardship approaches and the imperative of rethinking childhood innocence. Mindy talks about the need to find other ways of thinking our work with children. And Veronica talks about how the collective doesn’t seek the ideal of bringing children into nature but rather about creating worlds in the midst of devastation.
References
Kummen, K., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Blaise, M. & Taylor, A (2020) Common World Pedagogies: Interview Part 2. Video-recorded zoom keynote panel session. North Shore Early Childhood Conference: To Learn, To Wonder, Vancouver, 25/26 September. https://youtu.be/04GHegtwHz4