Rosamonde Birch

The ‘alternatives in education series’ has been designed to share a range of case studies exemplifying how schools and education/community learning settings can adopt approaches to Learning for Sustainability or embed ways of centring ‘knowledges’ of our interdependence and interconnectedness with Earth systems.

“Earth in Mind” Panel presentation at Noisily Festival 2022

The blog explores historical narratives that influence the origins of ‘public education’, exploring contemporary perspectives and new narratives that can transform education for eco-socially just futures, which include Tyson Yunkaporta (2019), Patel and Moore (2017) and the Common Worlds Research Collective (2020).

Continuing the conversation about knowmad education explored in the publication Knowmad Society (Moravec, 2013). I add the prefix ‘Eco’ dimension and how knowmadic learning is increasingly vital in response to climate chaos and to prepare children and young people for uncertain planetary futures.

A short discussion on the “ethics of care” and the importance of ‘care’ for the post-COVID19 pandemic era and what might a society ethically based on ideas of ‘care’ look like.

Exploring how place-conscious education and Land Pedagogy are intrinsically linked to ‘placeship’ and learning without land ‘ownership’.