Becoming-with fire and rainforest: Emergent curriculum and pedagogies for planetary wellbeing.

Description

We 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. We draw on Deleuze and Guattari’s theorising that ‘the self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two mul- tiplicities’; 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 curricu- lum and pedagogies in an early learning centre, which can ultimately contribute to planetary wellbeing.

Period	26 Oct 2022
Event title	Australian Journal of Environmental Education Symposium
Event type	Conference
Degree of Recognition	International