Becoming-with Bushfire and Rainforest

Description

In this seminar, Professor Margaret Somerville (Western Sydney University) and Dr Sarah Powell (Macquarie University) propose the concept of ‘becoming-with’ in relation to the experience of the catastrophic fires in the summer of 2019–2020 in Australia, and their implications for research into young children’s response to bushfires, and their learning about bushfire recovery, which resulted in the development of an arts-based project to explore emergent curriculum and pedagogies for planetary wellbeing. They draw on Deleuze and Guattari’s theorising that ‘the self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities’; and ‘Spatio-temporal relations’ as ‘not predicates of the thing but dimensions of multiplicities of events as encounters’ to theorise how ‘becoming-with’ fires enabled the development of emergent curriculum and pedagogies in an early learning centre, which can ultimately contribute to planetary wellbeing.

Period	20 Apr 2023
Event title	UTS Life-wide Learning and Education Research Group : LLE Seminar Series 2023
Event type	Seminar
Conference number	1
Location	Sydney, Australia, New South WalesShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local