Beings Here: An Exploration of Outdoor Educators Relationship with Place.
Archard, Jenny (2023) Beings Here: An Exploration of Outdoor Educators Relationship with Place. Masters thesis, Plymouth Marjon University.
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Abstract
This inquiry explores how a small group of woodland-based outdoor educators in the South West of England make and describe their relationship with the place where they work. It takes a post-qualitative, posthuman, new materialist approach employing a diffractive methodology and analysis, leading to a set of case�assemblages. The inquiry approach and methods are influenced by Indigenous scholars and methodologies. Materials were gathered through walking interviews and a talking-circle, which took place in the woodland. The analysis was enacted through three diffraction questions, summarised as Making Kin, Attunements with Place and ‘Non-language’ Visible. Discussion of the case-assemblages has enabled a series of four implications for practice to emerge, which are framed as questions: How practitioners can be supported to spend more time becoming familiar with their places, encouraging them to find ways to shift their perspective towards be-coming with the place; how practitioners can hear or be present to stories of place; how practices and pedagogy can enable more-than-human agency to be included; and how we support educators to trust and the instinct to be with their senses, and to be led by the more-than-humans, as well as value their cognitive knowledge. Tentative ideas for enacting these are offered, along with new areas of inquiry including work with Indigenous scholars. The discussion also reflects on the complexity of taking a post-qualitative approach.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Depositing User: | JISCRouter |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2024 14:39 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2024 14:39 |
| URI: | https://marjon.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17865 |
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