Ecological Pedagogy, Curriculum and Scholarship

This book series is premised on the ecological understanding that all of education– all of the living fields of knowledge entrusted to teachers and students in schools, all of the gestures of teaching and learning itself – is full of relations, interdependencies, ancestries, places, voices animated by lived and learned experiences. Ecological pedagogy, curriculum and scholarship understands that all living fields of knowledge must be taught and learned as such, with all of their intrinsic and animate rigours, complexities, interrelatedness, and earthly responsibilities. In these ecologically sorrowful times, our individual and collective impulse to raise voices of commiseration and encouragement to those working inside and outside of schools bristles with urgency. And this just at a time when the world also seems to be churning with increasing distractions and fakeries whose beneficiaries are not of this earth. Schools and schooling are caught up in ongoing yet ever-shifting inheritances of place and displacement, privilege, colonialism, gender and so on. They are also subject to legacies of indiscriminate standardization, efficiency, fragmentation and all of the ramped-up, exhausting and exhausted distractions of our current age. Education often drags along with its tenacious legacies of thinking and practice that are mostly silent, often silencing, simply taken for granted as just the way things are. Schooling itself, in so many quarters, has become an ecological disaster. Many teachers have studied and voiced these matters, while pursuing more venturous, ecologically sound work in their classroom, all this in deliberate resistance to the marginalization of such work. The series invites scholarly, enlivening and healing ways of researching and writing that attempt to live up to the ecologies of the topics themselves, each in their own ways and languages, each laden with their own ancestries, troubles, and insights – eco-hermeneutics, interpretive research, poetic inquiry, autobiographical and life writing, currere, Indigenous research, arts-based inquiry, storytelling and emergent ways and means of knowing. None of these are merely methodologies. Each involves myriad encounters, myriad relationships, myriad possibilities. In trying to find the measure of what is written within the things written about, these ways are in themselves ecological and pedagogical. They are locales where our relations are worked out, our songs are sung, our silences are shared, and our individual and collective stories are lived, contested, shaped and re-told. The logo for this book series is a Celtic Knot drawn by Eric Jardine in 1992. It became the cover illustration of a self-published book that year. It is a reminder of how long-standing is this current stream of work in education, stretching far back from there. These stretches are part of the ecological imagination itself. This book series is premised on the ecological understanding that all of education– all of the living fields of knowledge entrusted to teachers and students in schools, all of the gestures of teaching and learning itself – is full of relations, interdependencies, ancestries, places, voices animated by lived and learned experiences. Ecological pedagogy, curriculum and scholarship understands that all living fields of knowledge must be taught and learned as such, with all of their intrinsic and animate rigours, complexities, interrelatedness, and earthly responsibilities. In these ecologically sorrowful times, our individual and collective impulse to raise voices of commiseration and encouragement to those working inside and outside of schools bristles with urgency. And this just at a time when the world also seems to be churning with increasing distractions and fakeries whose beneficiaries are not of this earth. Schools and schooling are caught up in ongoing yet ever-shifting inheritances of place and displacement, privilege, colonialism, gender and so on. They are also subject to legacies of indiscriminate standardization, efficiency, fragmentation and all of the ramped-up, exhausting and exhausted distractions of our current age. Education often drags along with its tenacious legacies of thinking and practice that are mostly silent, often silencing, simply taken for granted as just the way things are. Schooling itself, in so many quarters, has become an ecological disaster. Many teachers have studied and voiced these matters, while pursuing more venturous, ecologically sound work in their classroom, all this in deliberate resistance to the marginalization of such work. The series invites scholarly, enlivening and healing ways of researching and writing that attempt to live up to the ecologies of the topics themselves, each in their own ways and languages, each laden with their own ancestries, troubles, and insights – eco-hermeneutics, interpretive research, poetic inquiry, autobiographical and life writing, currere, Indigenous research, arts-based inquiry, storytelling and emergent ways and means of knowing. None of these are merely methodologies. Each involves myriad encounters, myriad relationships, myriad possibilities. In trying to find the measure of what is written within the things written about, these ways are in themselves ecological and pedagogical. They are locales where our relations are worked out, our songs are sung, our silences are shared, and our individual and collective stories are lived, contested, shaped and re-told. The logo for this book series is a Celtic Knot drawn by Eric Jardine in 1992. It became the cover illustration of a self-published book that year. It is a reminder of how long-standing is this current stream of work in education, stretching far back from there. These stretches are part of the ecological imagination itself.

3 publications

Études de Musicologie/Musicological Studies

ISSN: 2031-2431

The series «Musicological Studies» offers innovating analysis of Western music from the origins to the present time. One of the aims of this collection is to present the diversity of the methodological approaches used by current scientific studies. It will thrive to focus on very different subjects and to integrate interdisciplinary studies. Whether it be monographs or collective works, any original reflection or any kind of study centring on an innovating field of research would thus be welcome into the «Musicological Studies» series. La collection « Études de Musicologie » propose des analyses innovantes des questions touchant à la musique occidentale des origines à nos jours. Elle vise naturellement à refléter la diversité des approches méthodologiques qui caractérisent les travaux scientifiques actuels. Elle privilégie la variété des sujets abordés, et est en particulier ouverte aux travaux interdisciplinaires. Monographie ou ouvrage collectif, toute étude fondée sur une recherche inédite ou une réflexion originale est donc susceptible d’’enrichir la collection « Études de Musicologie ».

14 publications

Varia Musicologica

ISSN: 1660-8666

The series „Varia Musicologica" treats a wide range of subjects from all fields of musicology. The editions, monographs and collections present the latest research from the music of the Middle Ages to new forms of music culture and adapt historical, cultural-historical, musical-aesthetic, biographical, analytical or source-critical methods. The volumes are presented in the languages English, German, French and Italian. Die Reihe «Varia Musicologica» ist als breit angelegtes Medium für vorwiegend monographische Arbeiten aus allen Feldern der Musikwissenschaft konzipiert. Die Bände erscheinen in freier Folge in den vier Sprachen Englisch, Deutsch, Französisch und Italienisch. Sie präsentieren neueste Forschungen von der Musik des Mittelalters bis zu neuen Formen von Musikkultur und gehorchen dabei historischen, kulturhistorischen, musikästhetischen, biographischen, analytischen oder quellenkritischen Methoden.

27 publications

African Theological Studies

ISSN: 2196-0615

The profiling and promotion of the characteristics of African theology and its independence constitute the intention of the editors of African Theological Studies. The series is open for monographs, anthologies and congress and conference proceedings from all branches of the discipline concerning African theology. Authors from Africa, Europe and, of course, other continents find here an excellent platform for their scientific works. English and French are the series’ languages. La série est ouverte aux monographies, anthologies, actes de colloques etc. de tous les secteurs de la théologie africaine. Des auteurs d'origine africaine ou européenne, mais aussi d'autres continents trouvent ici un excellent support pour la publication de leurs recherches scientifiques. Tous les textes seront revus par les éditeurs. C'est l'intention de cette série de développer les particularités de la théologie africaine et de contribuer à son autonomie. Les langues de publication sont l'Anglais et le Français. The profiling and promotion of the characteristics of African theology and its independence constitute the intention of the editors of African Theological Studies. The series is open for monographs, anthologies and congress and conference proceedings from all branches of the discipline concerning African theology. Authors from Africa, Europe and, of course, other continents find here an excellent platform for their scientific works. English and French are the series’ languages.

26 publications

International Theological Studies

Same Baptist Scholars have recognized the need to provide a channel for the publication of academie works, doctoral dissertations, and text books, that can be located In the Baptist tradition or related to present-day Baptist thinking. In the academie publishing market there Is a need both for the author and for the reader - to identify books that belang to a certain tradition. With this series we want to attract authors and manuscripts of high academie quality. And we shall seek to have this series subscribed to by many academie institutions so that we can promise to the authors a wide distribution. One volume has alreacly appeared (Festschrift Günter Wagner) and four other volumes are in the making. Same Baptist Scholars have recognized the need to provide a channel for the publication of academie works, doctoral dissertations, and text books, that can be located In the Baptist tradition or related to present-day Baptist thinking. In the academie publishing market there Is a need both for the author and for the reader - to identify books that belang to a certain tradition. With this series we want to attract authors and manuscripts of high academie quality. And we shall seek to have this series subscribed to by many academie institutions so that we can promise to the authors a wide distribution. One volume has alreacly appeared (Festschrift Günter Wagner) and four other volumes are in the making. Same Baptist Scholars have recognized the need to provide a channel for the publication of academie works, doctoral dissertations, and text books, that can be located In the Baptist tradition or related to present-day Baptist thinking. In the academie publishing market there Is a need both for the author and for the reader - to identify books that belang to a certain tradition. With this series we want to attract authors and manuscripts of high academie quality. And we shall seek to have this series subscribed to by many academie institutions so that we can promise to the authors a wide distribution. One volume has alreacly appeared (Festschrift Günter Wagner) and four other volumes are in the making.

4 publications