New Materialisms and Environmental Education

David A. G. Clarke lectures in Environmental Education at the University of Edinburgh (UK). He is a member of the University’s Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry (CCRI), and the Sustainability in Education Research Group (SIERG). His academic interests traverse education, creative inquiry, life experience, and ethics in the Anthropocene. Jamie Mcphie's work traverses Health, Environmental Humanities, and Experiential Education. He is a co-theme lead for one of the Learning, Education and Development Research Centre themes based at the University of Cumbria (UK). His research interests include therapeutic landscapes, environmental ethics, contemporary animisms, posthumanism and psychogeography. He recently authored the book Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Inquiry (2019).

1. Introduction—Tensions, knots, and lines of flight: themes and directions of travel for new materialisms and environmental education 2. From action to intra-action? Agency, identity and ‘goals’ in a relational approach to climate change education 3. Entangled threads and crafted meanings: students’ learning for sustainability in remake activities 4. More-than-human stories: experimental co-productions in outdoor environmental education pedagogy 5. Informal environmental learning: the sustaining nature of daily child/water/dirt relations 6. What if schools were lively more-than-human agencements all along? Troubling environmental education with moldschools 7. ‘An atmosphere, an air, a life:’ Deleuze, elemental media, and more-than-human environmental subjectification and education 8. Re-assembling environmental and sustainability education: orientations from New Materialism 9. Fieldnotes and situational analysis in environmental education research: experiments in new materialism 10. Doing little justices: speculative propositions for an immanent environmental ethics 11. Painting trees in the wind: socio-material ambiguity and sustainability politics in early childhood education with refugee children in Denmark 12. Challenging amnesias: re-collecting feminist new materialism/ecofeminism/climate/education 13. Anthropocentrism’s fluid binary 14. Dark pedagogy: speculative realism and environmental and sustainability education 15. Dark places: environmental education research in a world of hyperobjects 16. Environmental end game: ontos 17. Words (are) matter: generating material-semiotic lines of flight in environmental education research assemblages (with a little help from SF) 18. Nature matters: diffracting a keystone concept of environmental education research – just for kicks