Introduction to Ecologizing Philosophy of Education

Education qua Ecognosis

“…As a response to their alarming indictment of a theoretical and practical gap between philosophy of education and our ecological catastrophes and their call for an "ecologizing of philosophy of education, " 36 we have here proposed Morton's dark ecology, ecognosis and agrilogistics as conceptual frameworks to further this discussion. In an effort to make these terms more palatable, we used Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles as a poignant example of how literature can be translated through this optic and used in the classroom.…”

Tensions, knots, and lines of flight: themes and directions of travel for new materialisms and environmental education

“…It can be further witnessed in the ways this term creates novel jumping off points for (and even the purported 'death' of) environmental education (Le Grange 2019) due to its performative effects and the contemporary conditions it is meant to describe. In regard to wider debates, we might imagine the new materialisms as a sort of 'ecologising' of social science (see Murdoch 2001;Affifi et al 2017), but an ecologising which, at its most complex/sticky/critical, wrestles deeply to extricate core binaries which remain alive and (un)well in the idea of the 'ecological'. In fact, we might also be drawn to ponder the potential for 'ecologising', where the weight is placed on doing, to demonstrate the always ongoing nature of deconstructing the world as understood as a correlate of human thought.…”