Attuning to Geostories: Learning Encounters with Urban Plants

Autor/inn/en	Smolander, William; Pyyry, Noora
Titel	Attuning to Geostories: Learning Encounters with Urban Plants
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55 (2023) 11, S.1237-1252 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Smolander, William) ORCID (Pyyry, Noora)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2022.2133700
Schlagwörter	Urban Areas; Plants (Botany); Geography; Secondary School Students; Physical Environment; Story Telling; Horticulture; Foreign Countries; Finland (Helsinki) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Stadtregion; Pflanze; Geografie; Sekundarschüler; Natürliche Umwelt; Gartenbau; Ausland
Abstract	This paper is a call for educators to respond to the problematics that arise from reducing the Earth to a resource for human activities. The concept of 'Anthropocene' is a burning invitation to rethink education by putting the human to its place. We therefore argue for a spatial-embodied conceptualization of learning, which involves the more-than-human and nonrepresentational. In this effort, we use Latour's concept of 'geostory' to problematize the prevailing anthropocentrism in education. We discuss the power of experimentation by introducing a learning experiment that took place at a pop-up greenhouse in Helsinki. The idea was to encourage upper secondary geography students to playfully discard their human perspective and study the city from the viewpoint of plants: to probe the presumed human/nature divide through brief but moving encounters with 'others'. We argue that through affective encounters with nonhuman others, the Earth speaks: it tells stories with us. If humans let themselves be addressed by these encounters, geostories can temporarily re-place human-centred narrative storytelling practices (histories), voiced by the modernist 'I', and generate alternative forms of knowledge that emerge from our belonging together. These stories emerging from geographical experimentation entail potential to cultivate both knowing and care that exceed the human. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01