Allying With The Plants: A Pedagogical Path Towards The Planthroposcene
Irida Tsevreni 1 *
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1 Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, GREECE* Corresponding Author

Abstract

The notion of the Planthroposcene is based on an attempt to disconnect from the sustainability rhetoric of the Anthropocene and to choose to overcome the ecological crisis through an ecocentric path. In the current research, students of a Pedagogical Department at a University in Greece were encouraged to investigate their relationship with plants, to ally with them and to reflect on their experience, experimenting in an alternative way of empowering their ecological consciousness, away from the traditional environmental education practice based on sustainability. They designed and proposed activities, exploring and strengthening their connection to plants. Their activities were implemented through mindfulness techniques (meditation, yoga), art-based practices (drawing, dramatization, poem writing, dance) and taking action. The data analysis revealed that the students through their activities practiced participatory observation, communication, sensorial and embodied experience with plants. The manifestation of empathy for the otherness of plant-being also took place.

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Article Type: Research Article

INTERDISCIP J ENV SCI ED, 2021, Volume 17, Issue 4, Article No: e2249

https://doi.org/10.21601/ijese/10985

Publication date: 17 Jun 2021

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