Possibilities for Geontological Learning in Common Worlds
Abstract
In this article I examine the productive relations between Elizabeth Povinelli’s notion of learning-‐how and the pedagogical provocations proposed by the Common World Childhoods Research Collective. First, I encourage a move from thinking about the child as subject-‐object-‐other of early childhood education to thinking about relational becomings in common worlds. Second, I draw on Povinelli’s work to propose a form of geontological learning that shifts from learning-‐about to learning-‐with a range of existents. Geontological learning attends to the thick enmeshment of nonhuman geographies, more-‐than-‐human existents, and human lives in the quirky, messy, complex common worlds we co-‐inhabit.Downloads
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