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MYTHOLOGIES & SCIENCE FICTION AS CONTEXTS TO EXPLORE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES Joss French, Ph.D. Kurt Love, Ph.D. Central Connecticut State University Photographs: Kimberly Gill Sustainable Farm School Director American Educational Studies Association Baltimore, Maryland November 2, 2013
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Presented by Joss French, Ph.D. and Kurt Love, Ph.D. at the annual meeting of American Educational Studies Association in Baltimore, MD on November 2, 2013
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MYTHOLOGIES & SCIENCE FICTION AS CONTEXTS TO EXPLORE
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Joss French, Ph.D.!Kurt Love, Ph.D.!
Central Connecticut State University!
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Photographs:!Kimberly Gill!
Sustainable Farm School Director
American Educational Studies Association !
Baltimore, Maryland!November 2, 2013
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a
container already built for us to fit inside: A social security
number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the
container we are in, rather than what we are inside. Would we
recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically
'un-contained'? Paige Bradley
“Expansion”
“Myth”
Myths are “stories” acting as banks that store cultural values, origins of thinking, rituals, and traditions that might otherwise be lost.
Myths can help to question dominant and privileged mindsets.
http://prezi.com/lsncossgvb3c/nine-worlds/
A Question For All You Tricksters, Avatars & Aliens
Out There
How Do We Transform Our Present Eco-Social Realities?
Where the roots of our domination over each other come from the same root of domination we feel over the earth. . .
Where when our biodiversity is threatened and so is our cultural diversity . . .
Where when dominant elites exploit the earth and subordinate peoples and beings for their own benefit. . .
Where when our very social justice, critical social theories, and multiculturalism are often anthropocentric (human over nature) . . .
How do we move toward . . . . . . A Vision
and to other Realities . . ?1. Where eco-racism is eliminated?!
2. Where we “revitalize the commons” to create a balance between market and non-market aspects of community life?!
3. Where we end the industrialized nations’ exploitation and cultural colonization of third-world nations?!
4. Where we ensure that the hubris and ideology of Western industrial culture does not diminish future generations’ ways of living and quality of life?!
5. Where we support an “Earth Democracy”--the right of nature to flourish rather than be contingent upon the demands of humans
Summary points of ecojustice theory!from ecojusticeeducation.org
. . . to want to (re)imagine sustainable eco-social communities?!
. . . to want to (re)create sustainable eco-social communities?!
. . . to want to expand or become (un)contained beyond ourselves?
How Do We Get There?
Steven: “Do you SEE Me, Do You
HEAR Me?”
Why Was Steven’s Voice Released?
“[Voice is released when the teacher] utilize[s] aesthetic methods that instill trust with the child. . . [The aesthetic process is] reciprocal in that as the student asserts his/her power and who they are, the teacher displays to the student how that power of choice is received and nurtured. The child begins to de@ine their self-‐knowledge as their sense of self, their imaginative independent voice, is realized” (Clark & French, 2013, p. 4)
Clark, B. A. & French, J.J. (May 2014, in press). Hearts and minds without fear: Unmasking the sacred in teacher preparaHon. In B.L. Reck, (Ed.) Center of Partnerships for Arts-‐Integrated Teaching (Book Series Inaugural Selec<on). CharloMe, NC: InformaHon Age Publishing.
How Did this Happen? Seed of Unmasking
Creating a Compassionate Community Where Social Imagination Thrives With Endless Possibilities
Seed Of Unmasking: Hearts & Minds Without Fear (www.compassionateteaching.com)
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Clark, B. A. & French, J.J. (May 2014, in press). Hearts and minds without fear: Unmasking the sacred in teacher preparaHon. In B.L. Reck, (Ed.) Center of Partnerships for Arts-‐Integrated Teaching (Book Series Inaugural Selec<on). CharloMe, NC: InformaHon Age Publishing.
Seed of Unmasking: Hearts & Minds Without Fear
Mask Documentary: Echoes From A Child’s Soul
Clark, B. (2005). Moral imagination and art: Echoes from a child’s soul (Doctoral dissertation). University of Hartford, United States--Connecticut. Retrieved May 10, 2012, from Dissertations & Theses: Full Text. (Publication No. AAT 315 7797)
Becomes !
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A Vision
Voice & Release
RealityBecomes
References
Clark, B. A. & French, J.J. (May 2014, in press). Hearts and minds without fear: Unmasking the sacred in teacher preparation. In B.L. Reck, (Ed.) Center of Partnerships for Arts-Integrated Teaching (Book Series Inaugural Selection). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Hearts and Minds Without Fear: http://www.compassionateteaching.com
Echoes from a Child’s Soul: http://vimeo.com/34858804
Echoes Project:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spgeE5p-xeY
Images also from Adbusters magazine: adbusters.org
