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The Research for Holistic and Wild Pedagogies (HAWP) Group

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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.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  4. SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
    SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
  5. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  6. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  7. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  8. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  9. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  10. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  11. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  12. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  13. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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