Thesis Format
Integrated Article
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Program
Education
Supervisor
Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica
Abstract
Children are set to inherit a socially and ecologically damaged world. This thesis responds to this urgent concern by reimagining pedagogical and curriculum practices with educators and young children. Derived from pedagogical research at a childcare centre in London, Ontario, this thesis proposes engagement with common worlds frameworks and feminist earth-based spirituality as possible interventions to the dominant discourses of our times: capitalism, neoliberalism, settler colonialism, and anthropocentrism. A collection of scholarly book chapters and journal articles, this work advocates for situated and responsive pedagogical engagements that refute singular onto-epistemologies and speculate hopeful possibilities for more livable futures. In each chapter I engage with postqualitative research methodologies, such as common worlds ethnography, to experiment with what might be possible when pedagogical and curricular practices create space for multiple and varied conceptualizations of truth.
Summary for Lay Audience
Children are set to inherit a socially and ecologically damaged world. This thesis responds to this urgent concern by reimagining pedagogical and curriculum practices with educators and young children. Derived from pedagogical research at a childcare centre in London, Ontario, this thesis proposes engagement with common worlds frameworks and feminist earth-based spirituality as possible interventions to the dominant discourses of our times: capitalism, neoliberalism, settler colonialism, and anthropocentrism. A collection of scholarly book chapters and journal articles, this work advocates for situated and responsive pedagogical engagements that refute singular onto-epistemologies and speculate hopeful possibilities for more livable futures. In each chapter I engage with postqualitative research methodologies, such as common worlds ethnography, to experiment with what might be possible when pedagogical and curricular practices create space for multiple and varied conceptualizations of truth.
Recommended Citation
Montpetit, Meagan, "Reimagining Climate Relations with Feminist Earth-Based Spirituality through Common Worlds Ethnography with Young Children" (2023). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 9115.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/9115