Abstract:
A 'slow pedagogy of place' in (environmental/outdoor) education has been enacted by the two authors over the past three years in a third year undergraduate semester-long unit named 'Experiencing the Australian Landscape' (EAL). An integrated practical and theoretical, de and reconstruction of fast pedagogies is now needed, we believe, if education is to make a positive contribution to overcoming the ecologically problematic human condition. EAL fosters an embodied sensory-perceptual and conceptual-theoretical 'sense' or 'possibility' of place while assisting its participants to understand the relations of their body and nature, in time and space, as they are experienced phenomenologically.
We hope the notion of a slow ecopedagogy prompts a reversal of the precarious prospects for experiential education in schooling and acts as a critique of the 'take-away' pedagogies proliferating in education.
We hope the notion of a slow ecopedagogy prompts a reversal of the precarious prospects for experiential education in schooling and acts as a critique of the 'take-away' pedagogies proliferating in education.