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Wild Pedagogies: touchstones for re-negotiating education and the environment in the Anthropocene

Wild Pedagogies is an unusual book. It traces the course of discussions that unfolded between the participants on a bespoke gathering of academics and educators. The gathering took place on the Lady of Avenel, a 102-foot square rigged sailing ship as it explored the coastal waters of Scotland, as well as on the wild and remote landscapes that the ship gave the participants access to. The book is woven with anecdotes and observations of the participants as they grapple with the subject matter they had assigned themselves, their experiences on the ship, the vagaries of Scottish weather, the wild life and the many histories that were encountered. The fifteen international authors behind Wild Pedagogies have not individually been responsible for any sections of the book but rather have participated in discussions that inform the whole of the book. The Crex Crex Collective, as the authors call themselves (named after a local bird) is credited in each chapter. Each of the authors that comprise the collective is actively engaged in education for the planet. The foundation of Wild Pedagogies lies upon two premises. The first is that human lifestyles in the developed world are placing an unprecedented strain on the natural systems of the planet with potentially catastrophic results, and the second is that education is necessary in any transformational activity of the scale required to reverse this trend. Much work is then undertaken to envisage and then unpack what such an education endeavour might look like. Central to this discussion lies the challenge for educators to move from human-centred and human exclusive understandings of wilderness to positions ‘that honour the voice and presence of nature and more-than-beings’ (p. 34). There are strong threads running through the book that are systematically unpacked. Wild pedagogies are explored in terms of needing to ‘attend to the voice of more-than-human others’ (p. 38) and that ‘strong ideas are needed to rattle human hubris, and to create openings for different possibilities’. (p. 38). Educating in the Anthropocene forms a central thread and is a timely conversation. The collective observe: