(Re)storying Intergenerational Encounters with Climate Action
This presentation engages with narrative and visual stories that emerged from climate justice research with lands, children, families, elders, and teachers in a rural Eswatini community. The stories brought forward emerged from children’s land-based and classroom encounters with the effects of climate change in their community, from intergenerational dialogues on revitalizing Indigenous foods, and as children, families, and community members worked with the land to build an Indigenous food garden.This storytelling is anchored in situated understandings of relationality that interconnect the stories I share whilst thinking carefully about how stories can be shared, inviting opacity as a generative way to research with Indigenous and traditional communities, knowledges, and lands.
Dr. Fikile Nxumalo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, where she directs the Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab and is also affiliated faculty in the School of the Environment and the School of Cities. Fikile is the author of over sixty scholarly publications, including her book Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education (Routledge, 2019). Her work seeks to make conceptual, methodological, curricular, and pedagogical contributions in disrupting colonial erasures, anti-Blackness, and anthropocentrism in education, particularly within current conditions of socio-ecological precarity.
Keynote Speaker: Fikile Nxumalo
(Re)storying Intergenerational Encounters with Climate Action
This presentation engages with narrative and visual stories that emerged from climate justice research with lands, children, families, elders, and teachers in a rural Eswatini community. The stories brought forward emerged from children’s land-based and classroom encounters with the effects of climate change in their community, from intergenerational dialogues on revitalizing Indigenous foods, and as children, families, and community members worked with the land to build an Indigenous food garden.This storytelling is anchored in situated understandings of relationality that interconnect the stories I share whilst thinking carefully about how stories can be shared, inviting opacity as a generative way to research with Indigenous and traditional communities, knowledges, and lands.
Dr. Fikile Nxumalo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, where she directs the Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab and is also affiliated faculty in the School of the Environment and the School of Cities. Fikile is the author of over sixty scholarly publications, including her book Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education (Routledge, 2019). Her work seeks to make conceptual, methodological, curricular, and pedagogical contributions in disrupting colonial erasures, anti-Blackness, and anthropocentrism in education, particularly within current conditions of socio-ecological precarity.
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