The Research for Holistic and Wild Pedagogies (HAWP) Group explores how behaving and being differently will enable us to become the different people that are needed to “re-wild” education. Re-wilding education requires “learning from place and landscape. Listening to voices from the more- than-human world. Attending to the untamed” (Jickling et al., 2018, p.x). We are currently living through the sixth mass extinction on planet Earth. Our planet and its inhabitants are facing existential threats and seismic changes wrought from wanton consumerism, technological idolatry, and pushed ever onwards by a colonial mindset. In response, Holistic and Wild Pedagogies provide various paths of resistance and alternatives to the dominant culture. These include (but are not limited to): holistic pedagogical approaches; artistic ways of knowing; posthumanist and new materialist perspectives; critical pedagogies, and philosophies from indigenous cultures and ancient wisdom traditions. All are bound together by common threads that focus on exploring ways of being in education that honour our interrelationships with each other and the more-than-human world. We recognise that authentic engagement with the more-than-human world and artistic ways of being allow for an ingress into new realities, and existential understandings, and can involve experiences of awe and wonder. As such, we reject the dominant neoliberal paradigm in education of the quest for certainty and efficiency. 

The Research for HAWP Group would welcome collaborative opportunities with researchers interested in these areas.