PaTHES Webinar: Malou Juelskjær, Re/unlearning how to research, teach and learn: Pedagogy as a worlding practice
Feb 22, 2024 07:00 AM in London
Speaker: Malou Juelskjær, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark
Discussant: Barbara Grant
Abstract/summary: Feminist new materialist thinking is proliferating in the precarious time also named ‘the Anthropocene’; an era of pressing ecological and geopolitical problems. There is a call for assistance to re/unlearn how to live (research, teach and learn) in ways that have less destructive impacts on the world. A call to re/unlearn how to relate to the responsibilities of ‘the human species’, to experiment with how to develop capacities to listen to and co-live with the surroundings, the more-than human. It is furthermore crucial to unlearn arrogance, human exceptionalism and – for some of us – eurocentrism and colonial knowledges entangled with ‘the university’.
Pedagogy is a worlding practice: it facilitates ways of relating, thinking, sensing, acting and is involved in the shaping of a ‘collective intelligence’. Feminist materialist pedagogies may assist in reorienting the subject and object of pedagogy by both attending to natureculture agency and matter’s vibrancy, and address (anew) the iterative production of inequalities and differences, in/justices and justice-to-come in a more-than human world. I the talk, I will share such framework and a mix of what I do (in research and teaching) and what I would like to be able to do in (co-shaping) futures to come.