Mosaicking childhoodnature relations: Situated encounters with country in times of climate change

Barratt Hacking, E. et al. (2023) Mosaicking childhoodnature relations: Situated encounters with country in times of climate change. Children's Geographies, (doi: 10.1080/14733285.2023.2285473) (Early Online Publication)

Abstract

This paper, by an intergenerational and international author collective, uses postqualitative ‘mosaicking’ to assemble and reassemble ‘material moments’ of childhoodnature encounters. Mosaicking is an experimentation that combines materials, digital devices, nonhuman nature, and humans to co-create something new; it enables us to ponder nature relations from multiple perspectives and in post-anthropocentric ways. Enacting this speculative inquiry, that works to blur the boundaries of diverse childhoodnature experiences, enables an exploration of the complex realities of climate change for children. This opens new post-anthropocentric orientations for Climate Change Education. We consider how the Aboriginal philosophy of Country and the posthuman concepts of childhoodnature, relational becoming, and nature relations can be interwoven and put to work towards this endeavour, thus challenging dominating minority world, humanist perspectives. Emerging from this we propose educational responses to climate change which are co-created, relational, place-oriented, embodied, transformative, and sensitive to children’s Climate Change becomings.

• Item Type: Articles
• Keywords: childhoodnature, relational becoming, nature relations, Climate Change Education (CCE), Country, postqualitative mosaicking.
• Status: Early Online Publication
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Dunkley, Dr Ria
• Authors: Barratt Hacking, E., Bastos, E., Hogarth, H., Sands, B., Dunkley, R., Wenham, L., Saputra, A., Fernandez McCabe, O., Fletcher, A., Nashid, A. A., Anjani, A., and Davies, B.
• Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography; H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Pedagogy, Praxis & Faith
• Journal Name: Children's Geographies
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1473-3285
• ISSN (Online): 1473-3277
• Published Online: 27 December 2023
• Copyright Holders: Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s)
• First Published: First published in Children's Geographies 2023
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence