Environmental Sustainability Education in the Anthropocene Collective
Witnessing, Researching and Educating
Professor Karen Malone, Swinburne University of Technology I would like to start by acknowledging the Bunurong People of the Kulin Nation who are the Traditional Custodians of the Unceded Land I am posting from and pay my respect to Elders past, present and emerging. I celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal and First Nation peoples in Australia …
Continue reading "Imagining Otherwise: Reconfiguring Education for Relational and Planetary Futures"
By Professor Karen Malone Introduction Ursula Le Guin writes "It's up to authors to spark the imagination of their readers and to help them envision alternatives to how we live." She reminds us our writing is both warning and promise and it is never innocent. When we write, we have a responsibility to envision possibilities, …
Continue reading "Speculative Interspecies Autoethnography: Speaking-with the Future"
Author Professor Karen Malone Introduction Many would argue we reside in a disenchanted world, stories of disasters, wars, ecological degradation weigh heavily on many. None more so than children and young people who have across the world expressed their shared despair and grief at the state of the planet. They feel this pain and anxiety …
Continue reading "Moral injury … is a sign that one’s conscience is alive."
Author Professor Karen Malone Introduction The paper argues for a transformative ecological educational paradigm that could be aligned with supporting an emerging philosophy to support ecological civilizations. It does this by exploring how a reimagining of education through ecological and ethical lenses can support learning with and as the environment, where children are co-constituted learners …
Environmental Sustainability Education in the Anthropocene Collective 