Abstract
Hybrid tales of the postcolonial contact zone: Place-based pedagogy and the decolonisation of environmental education
World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC), 7th (Marrakech, Morocco, 09-Jun-2013–14-Jun-2013)
2013
Abstract
Place based pedagogies often assume that positive regard for the environment fosters pro environmental behaviors. Based on research with the Ngarrindjeri in Australia I argue that engagement with Indigenous knowledge and colonial histories are necessary to decolonize environmental education and generate more nuanced environmental sensitivities. Hybrid tales of a postcolonial contact zone detail the encounter of secret and gendered Indigenous knowledge structures with a postcolonial politics of place to generate new and missed opportunities for intercultural dialogue and place based pedagogy.
Details
- Title
- Hybrid tales of the postcolonial contact zone: Place-based pedagogy and the decolonisation of environmental education
- Authors
- Julie M Matthews (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
- Conference details
- World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC), 7th (Marrakech, Morocco, 09-Jun-2013–14-Jun-2013)
- Publisher
- World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC)
- Date published
- 2013
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2013 World Environmental Education Congress. Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449092502621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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