Encountering Education through Existential Challenges and Community

Auteur

Giles Barrow is a self-employed teacher, trainer, consultant and ecologist.

Texte du rabat

Directly inspired by Indian British activist Satish Kumar's 2013 seminal work 'Soil, Soul and Society', this book rethinks education in line with thoughts around the current climate crisis, the purpose of education in a post-pandemic world, and the mental health of children, teachers and youth across societies.

Contenu

Arrival 1. A critique of product orientated education and a rationale for an alternative vision incorporating sufficiency, homonomy and emancipation: Walking the Land 2. The importance of an ecological-phenomenological perspective in the educational encounter: From the Margins 3. Natality, subjectification and the function of physis in education: Arrival 4. Liminality, place-based education and the role of myth and story: Beyond Arrival 5. The act of teaching, 'grown-up-ness' and eldership in the educational encounter: To Whom does the student arrive? 6. Implications for an education orientated toward connection with the existential, social and ecological domains: For Whom is the Harvest? Coda