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Theorizing the Quiet Power of Forest School
This highly novel volume reframes the popular, yet sorely under-theorised international education movement known as forest school, offering an interdisciplinary framework with which to set apart forest school from other outdoor education programmes and child-led pedagogies. By broadly defining forest school as regular, repeated, unstructured practice in nature, the book is able to link the established UK-centred understanding of the practice to other similar international movements that share the same Scandinavian-inspired principles, such as those in Germany, the United States, Canada, South Korea, and New Zealand, among others. Centred around three central pillars which demonstrate how forest school may be viewed through three alternative onto-epistemological lenses, chapters engage with data by writing diffractively through these three concepts and with the key posthuman, eco-philosophical, and new materialist theories that relate to them. The book ultimately argues that it is the forest itself – and the quiet intra-relationship that develops – which is the integral keystone of the practice of forest school. This perspective challenges historical human-centred thinking, which has long constrained our understanding of the profound connections between humans and the natural world. Offering a new appreciation of the quiet power of forest school and an understanding of it as a significant emergent pedagogical practice, this book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with forest school, early childhood education, the philosophy of education, and theories of learning more broadly.
Feminist Philosophy of Technology
There has been little attention to feminism and gender issues in mainstream philosophy of technology and vice versa. Since the beginning of the so-called »second wave feminism« (in the middle of the 20th century), there has been a growing awareness of the urgency of a critical reflection of technology and science within feminist discourse. But feminist thinkers have not consistently interpreted technology and science as emancipative and liberating for the feminist movement. Because technological development is mostly embedded in social, political, and economic systems that are patriarchally hierarchized, many feminists criticized the structures of dominance, marginalization and oppression inherent in numerous technologies. Therefore, the question of defining and ascribing responsibility in technics and science is essential for this anthology – regarding for instance the technological transformation of labor, the life in the information society, and the relationship between humans and machines.
Karen Barad’s Feminist Materialism
Author: David Harris
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: 2021-01-13
This book discusses the prodigious output of one of the most influential proponents of social theory, Professor Karen Barad. Her work attracts a wide readership in feminist theory and politics, philosophy and science studies, and she pursues a particular interdisciplinary approach—“diffraction”—to pursue links and connections between these disciplines. Her new terminology, including terms like “intra-action”, has been widely explored and applied. She shows how these terms have been developed from her interest in quantum theory, especially the work of Niels Böhr. This book is an “immanent critique”, exploring the processes by which different academic concerns and schools have been connected and treated as examples of a very general account of how the whole universe works, which Barad terms “agential realism”. There is no intention here to reject or dismiss these arguments, to replace them with a rival account, or to adopt some detached “objective” stance, although any alternatives which occur during the process are acknowledged and briefly discussed. The main objective in this book is to consider the consistency of Barad’s arguments and how they have been used in actual discussions. Some of the supporting work, by other authors like Haraway, Kirby, Schrader and Ziarek, is also considered in six chapters covering the quantum world, animals and machines as nonhuman agents, social relations as intra-actions, diffraction as a method, and general philosophical underpinnings.