Mess-making as a Force for Resistance: Reimagining Environmental Educational Research for Multispecies Flourishing
Mess-making as a Force for Resistance: Reimagining Environmental Educational Research for Multispecies Flourishing
An academic paper, essay, illustrative case studies, interactive art and wordplay, work together in this paper to provide a compelling entry into regenerative education. The authors explain and illustrate (literally) a pedagogical - experiential approach to education that embraces understanding through emergent observation, reflection and co-creation.
Authors, Hannah Hogarth and Charlotte Hankin not only describe, but demonstrate through art and case studies the virtues of educational approaches that emphasize emergence, observation, and co-creation in dialogue with nature and other beings.
Providing an academic rationale that builds off the importance of embedded understandings and etymology in the common concept of a "mess" the authors proceed "rhyzomatically" to explore their methodologies and experiments in the paper's own form and expression as well as through case studies.
Their advocacy for a different way of knowing, making sense, and being in touch with the living world, while we are part of it neatly captures essential aspects of the emerging regenerative development ethic in education through text, and equally, demonstration.
By Hannah Hogarth and Charlotte Hankin published in the Australian Journal of Environmental Education