A Sentient Planet as a School; a School as a Community Garden: Toward Eco-Creative Think-Practicing

Mónica G. Rocha-Bravo, Polina Golovátina-Mora

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Abstract

The article revisits the notion of theory as differential becoming with a diffractive reading of two practices through/with each other: the curricular project of environmental education in Colombian schools and walking through Colombian volcanic selva. The article discusses both experiences as a practice of being-of living knowledge. Such knowledge is not just practical, functional, or instrumental; it is meaningful because it is co-created, emergent from being/becoming-with. The environmental education classroom discussed in the article is seen as an ecosystem. Academic reflexivity and the process of writing are approached as an ecosystem as well. We argue that decolonized/-ing inquiry requires inner decolonization as a person, as a field, and as academia by overcoming any homogeneous tendency toward being creatively and diversely more-than-theory.

Original languageEnglish
JournalQualitative Inquiry
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2024
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords

  • Colombian curriculum
  • critical more-than-humanism
  • decolonizing inquiry
  • environmental education
  • thinking-with-selva

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