"Why Study for A Future We Won't Have?": Commiserations and Encouragement for Ecologically Sorrowful Times

by David W. Jardine, William F. Pinar (Editor)

Overview

"Why Study for A Future We Won't Have? " This was a sign carried by a student at a protest at a local school board. It provided the motivation for this collection. Herein are philosophical, poetic and practical essays that question the image of education we have all inherited, and provide encouragement, commiserations and examples of a more ecologically sound understanding of the living disciplines of knowledge entrusted to teachers and students in school. This book also explores the parallels between this ecopedagogical and hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is not just a research method about curriculum, teaching and learning, but is itself deeply pedagogical. The author has been exploring these issues since the early 1990s. Why mention this? Up against the dominant discourses that bend and shape our individual and collective lives in and outside of schools, our task is inevitably tough and long-standing. We all need encouragement and commiseration in these ecologically sorrowful times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636678115
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	07/31/2024
Series:	Complicated Conversation: A Book Series of Curriculum Studies , #62
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

David Jardine is a Full Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. His former employ involved supervising student-teachers in school classrooms and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in pedagogy and curriculum. He is the author of 14 previous books, 130 articles in refereed journals and over 45 chapters in various book collections. He is now receiving a thorough early childhood education from his two grandsons, feeling tired and happy, and can hardly write fast enough to keep up.

Table of Contents

1). Introduction: "Why Study for a Future we Won’t Have? "

2). "Sometimes it Takes, Sometimes it Doesn’t"

3). An Upwell Near Father’s Day

4). "To Know the World, We Have to Love It"

5). "Meanwhile Saints Graze on the Begonias"

6). Owning Up to Being an Animal: On the Ecological Virtue of Composure

7). "The More Intense the Practice, The More Intense the Demons"

8). Thoughts on The Return of Yesterday’s War

9). "A Hubris Hiding from its Nemesis": Why Does the Affirmation of Diversity Tend Towards the Proliferation of Multiple Identities, and to What Consequence?

10). Beet Juice

11). I am not a Buddhist

12). Cautionary Yet Hopeful Thoughts on "Mindfulness Practices" in Schools*

13). "We Arrive, As It Were, Too Late"

14). How to Love Black Snow

15). "It Will Startle You": Thoughts on a Pedagogical Conspiracy of Birds

16). "Come Fluttering off the Spine"

17). "The . . . Readiness . . . To Be ‘All Ears’"

18). It Might Just be Ravens Writing in Mid-Air

19). "I’m Gonna Shine Out in The Wild Kindness"

20). "Asleep in My Sunshine Chair"

21). Quickening Patience Suffering

22). "Tears Run Down Heaven’s Gaunt Face"

23). Baby’s Blue. See Through

24). An Obituary at the Very Last Minute

25). Two Arced Fishes and a Raven’s Eye: Thoughts on Selfies, Pandemics, and a Door, Ajar

26). Being at the Trembling

27). Sunflowers, Coyote, and Five Red Hens

28). "Things Reveal Themselves Passing Away"

29). Early Morning Blues

30). The Unfinished Work of "Getting Back to Normal"

31). To be Dying Under Their Wings is a Weird Miracle

32). "You are Walking Near Your True Home"

33). "A Holding Back, a Keeping Clear"

34). "A Dark Saying": On Temporarily Regaining a Measure of Well-Being

35). An Early Childhood Education

36). On Teaching Punctuation

37). "To Lend Ourselves to Its Life": On Early Childhood Literacy and Other Early Matters

38). We Do Know What to Do

39). From a Town by the Spring

40). "Nobody Understood Why I Should be Grieving"

41). As the Warming Chills

42). "It’s February. It Won’t Last"

43). Quick After Class Ruminations: February 1^st, 2017

44). Falling Silent
45). Curls and Tucks