Open AccessCommon Worlding Pedagogies: Opening Up to Learning with Worlds
Author(s) -
Affrica Taylor,
Т В Захарова,
Maureen Cullen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of childhood studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2371-4115
pISSN - 2371-4107
DOI - 10.18357/jcs464202120425
Subject(s) - framing (construction) , collaboratory , social worlds , sociology , wildlife , early childhood , epistemology , pedagogy , social science , geography , ecology , psychology , archaeology , developmental psychology , philosophy , world wide web , computer science , biology
Common worlding is a collective pedagogical approach. It is also a deliberate move to open up education to worlds beyond narrow human preoccupations and concerns and beyond its standard framing as an exclusively social practice. In this article, we identify some of the guiding principles that underpin this approach and explain how they work out in practice. We do so by offering a selection of illustrative vignettes drawn from the Walking with Wildlife in Wild Weather Times early childhood research project in Canberra, Australia, and from the Witnessing the Ruins of Progress early childhood research collaboratory in Ontario, Canada.