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Throughout my life, work and career there have been four ‘beautiful questions’:

• what does it mean to be human?

• what type of future do we want for humankind and the planet?

• how might we create an ecologically and socially just future together?

• how can we teach, educate or learn differently?

I am interested in considering how changing social constructs, ways of co-creating, immediate ecological necessity and sustainable practices are re/shaping how we learn, work and create community. In response to those prescient needs and uncertainties I align with and work closely within an ‘Eco Knowmad’ way of being. A ‘nomadic knowledge worker’ (Knowmad) (Moravec, 2019), focusing on ecological/sustainable future needs (Eco) (Bowers, 1992-2016; Curry, 2011), collaborating and co-creating with place, systems, networks, peoples, values, needs, dreams, fears and hopes for new eco-socially just ‘world-making’ potential (Freire, 1994; Federici, 2019; Gruenewald, 2008; hooks, 2003).

With my early career background in environmental conservation, social justice, global justice and citizenship education I now want to consider ideas, theory, concepts, practices and onto-epistemologies about our planetary future through my Blog/s and link specifically to education’s relationship with social transformation. This .space is a journey of my own exploration and a .space to further discussions about these potentials, opportunities, possibilities and hopes of what education can achieve for future change, and exemplify models and ideas of how education can transform towards new ‘world-making’ and meaning-making (Barad, 2007; Haraway, 1997) practices.

References:

Barad, K. (2007) Meeting the Universe Halfway.

Bowers, C. A. (1992 - 2016) Ideological, cultural, and linguistic roots of education reforms to address the ecological crisis: The selected works of C. A. (Chet) Bowers.

Curry, P. (2011) Ecological Ethics.

Federici, S. (2019) Re-enchanting the World.

Freire, P. (1994) Pedagogy of Hope.

hooks, b. (2003) Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Gruenewald, D. A. (2008) The best of both worlds: a critical pedagogy of place, in Environmental Education Research Journal.

Haraway, D. (1997) Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse.

Moravec, J. (Editor) (2013) Knowmad Society.