Jane Merewether

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Just read A Living Feminist Postdevelopmental Lexicon for Early Education by Blaise & Pacini-Ketchabaw and wow.
26 concepts to unlearn developmentalism + reimagine pedagogy as more-than-human, relational, feminist, hopeful.

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Vale Carla Rinaldi (1950–2025). A visionary for public education and for ethical, democratic pedagogy.
She showed us that education could be done differently.
#ReggioEmilia #education #listening

Postdevelopmental Approaches to Digital Arts in Childhood This book deconstructs traditional developmentalist logic around children's engagement with digital media where the focus is on what the digital 'does to' child…

This looks good! Just published. Congratulations to Marissa McClure Sweeny and Mona Sakr and all chapter authors. Cracking range 📖

How Students Are Learning Not to Believe Everything They See on TikTok “I feel like I should look up if it’s true or not before I start spreading it.”

“I feel like I should look up if it’s true or not before I start spreading it.”

Teen Vogue spoke with a dozen educators who say that the question of how to know whether something online can be trusted has made its way into their classrooms in recent years.
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From securing pets to building ‘insect hotels’ – here are 7 ways to attract birds to your garden New research highlights the need for a broader approach to attracting fairy-wrens and other beloved birds to our gardens.

Want to attract more of our feathered friends 🦜into your garden? Some great tips are contained in this @aunz.theconversation.com piece by Murdoch researchers Rochelle Stevens and David Newsome theconversation.com/from-securin...

Come on Australian universities, what's taking so long?

Vale John Marsden. Not only a great writer but also a great educator who showed that schooling could be done differently.

A excellent collection! Thanks for bringing this SI to my attention!

Terrific article from @julieovington.bsky.social and @joalbinclark.bsky.social that uses posthuman theories to view walls as more than just physical structures. By thinking of walls in this way, the authors aim to understand how walls interact with and influence the lives of children and educators.

Wasted goods, wasted lives: our #TSRWaste issue, edited by @asiyaislam.bsky.social , draws on thinkers from Françoise Vergès to Zygmunt Bauman to take a closer look at food apps, sanitation workers and fishing communities, floods of fast fashion in Ghana, and much more.

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Portrait of a woman in a black tank-top and short hair amongst plants and flowers blurred both in the back and foreground.

Plants miraculously eat light. Yet here we are, seemingly convinced not only of their dullness, but that humans are the best and brightest beings on Earth? In this week's newsletter, climate journalist @zoeschlanger.bsky.social dispels such delusions. mailchi.mp/emergencemag...

Northern hemisphere seasons make little sense in Australia. BOM has some good info about Indigenous seasons in Australia www.bom.gov.au/iwk/climate_...

Learning About Trees; Thinking about Roots - Treescapes Voices TREESCAPES Toolkit Environmental education and Education for Sustainability are often highly didactic. Children are required to learn ‘facts’about issues like carbon, climate change, and environmental...

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one of our wonderful toolkits developed by our team - thanks to Peter Kraftl and the Voices of the Future team designed by Maisy Summer with primary school children in Manchester

Overview - Science Education - Wiley Online Library The field of science education has long grappled with tensions and complexities, such as:

Beginning January 2025, myself & Dr. Asli Sezen-Barrie will be co-editors for a new section in the journal Science Education focused on climate change and environmental education.
See link for section description - look forward to receiving submissions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Understanding Indigenous knowledge of weather and seasons You’re probably familiar with the four seasons—Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring—but did you know that First Nations people have long recognised many more? Depending on the location, some Indigenous ...

The Noongar people of southwest Australia have six seasons: Birak, Bunuru, Djeran, Makuru, Djilba, and Kambarang. The seasons are not fixed to a specific date, but are instead dictated by changing environmental signs.
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"... this isn’t new and radical. These are in fact the fundamental principles of how one lives sustainably in place, which we have forgotten, which we have been made to forget by an economy that doesn’t want us to have enough, that always wants us to consume more." #HonorableHarvest

"Everything is Country"

Elon Musk Admits X Is Making It Harder for People to Read News The world’s richest man has finally admitted he’s essentially censoring news articles on X.

X's algorithm deprioritises posts with links, which essentially stifles news and journal articles. No wonder journalists and academics are leaving X in droves.
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On my blog back in 2020 I wrote in passing about the expression ‘preaching to the converted’ & I’ve thinking about it again & about finding chambers where can hear echoes of those we need to hear 💜

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Re-Routing and Re-Imagining Gender and Education conference The 21st Gender in Education Association conference. Discover the themes being discussed, key dates and how to get involved.

Call for abstracts now open….

Poster for “Contact Zones: A Masterclass in Continental Philosophy” with an artwork by Anna Hedberg. Description of the event: What are the basic tenets of posthumanist philosophy today? How does deconstruction meet new materialism, (post-)phenomenology meet feminist theory, and philosophical anthropology meet the posthuman predicament? Which role have existentialism, philosophical ethology, or French Theory played in shaping posthumanism, be it in oppositional ways, and what can they bring to posthumanist philosophy today? Contact Zones is an online event, a “masterclass” in continental philosophy and a co-learning opportunity organised in collaboration between the Posthumanities Hub at Linköping University and the Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS) in Paris. Date: 5 December Time: 15:15-17:00 CET Contact: tuja.torvaldsson@liu.se Logos of Linköing University, LEGS and Posthumanities Hub

The poster for “Contact Zones: A Masterclass in Continental Philosophy” is out!
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Young Children Moving through Ecological Anxiety and Grief: Dancing with Demolition As the extent of planetary unraveling becomes increasingly apparent, scholars are beginning to document responses to the loss of ecological systems, mass extinctions, and climate change. However, t...

Thought provoking reading from Jane Merewether, Jo Pollitt and Mindy Blaise #earlychildhood ://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15290824.2024.2403757#abstract "Children were concerned for the fate of the building, the land on which it stood, and the myriad others it sheltered."

From anger to dreaming to real utopias: Re-thinking, re-conceptualising and re-forming (early childhood) education in the conditions of the times - Diana Sousa, Peter Moss, 2024 Starting and finishing with the words of Sally Lubeck, one of the founders of RECE, this article locates early childhood education, all education, in conditions...

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Storying hopeful resistances to datafication: Cracks, spacetimematterings and figurations of agency within the more-than-human ecologies of early childhood education and care - Jo Albin-Clark, Nathan ... In this paper, we ponder the ecologies of spacetimematterings folded into resistance practices and their relationality with figurations of agency outside and be...

Interested in early childhood 🚸 and datafication? published today with wonderful Nathan Archer and Liz Chesworth "Storying hopeful resistances to datafication" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks for reading Jo!

Decolonizing the Literature Review: A Relational Approach - Lauren Tynan, Michelle Bishop, 2023 As two (ab)Original women, we consider how a relational approach to the literature review can reflect our broader Indigenous and decolonizing research methodolo...

I love the way a "literature cartography" expands "how we tell and are affected by literature stories".
On the subject of reimagining the literature review, Lauren Tynan and Michelle Bishop discuss taking a relational approach to the literature review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Just a reminder that it is primarily whiteness and inequality that upholds people like Trump #trump

Field Notes on Repair: 4 The fourth installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, and activists share observations on practices of repair, preservation, and care.

Me in @placesjournal.bsky.social :

“Repair can help us move beyond the ideas of techno-solutionist decarbonization that tend to dominate tech industry greenwashing + to look instead at practices, institutions + architectures that can extend the lives of systems through refurbishment + repurposing”

Hi Julie Helen and I have been collaborating with chalk stream this year. River Arle, Bishop’s Sutton has been an inspiration for ‘whispers of chalk stream ‘ - an intergenerational, hyperlocal community project. #WatercressandWinterbournes

Sign in foreground with river behind. Wording on sign says: "Connection to Country: Noongar Occupation Datings from excavations at open artefact sites and rock shelters in the South West at Bunbury, Margaret River, Quindalup, Dunsborough and Albany, indicate the area has been occupied by Aboriginal people from 47,000 years ago to recent times. Numerous artefact scatters in the coastal area of Bunbury confirm the area was used for long and short term camping, social gatherings and ceremonial purposes. Eaton was a favoured location because of the rich food resources offered by the estuary, river and inland and also as it was protected by the Quindalup Dunes west of Leschenault Estuary. Silcrete, dolerite, quartz and granite were obtained via trade from the Darling Scarp and used to manufacture stone tools and implements such as flakes, scrapers, backed blades and grinding stones. Fossiliferous chert collected from offshore sources or traded from the south coast was also used to produce artefacts. These stone tools were used to form wooden implements, weapons and to process food."

This sign reminds us that Aboriginal people have lived in this place for 47,000 years.
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