Geographical education for/about/in the age of the anthropocene
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In their call to relationality, Starblanket and Stark (2018) emphasize that although settler colonialism is structural, it operates, is expressed, and is resisted through everyday encounters and interactions. Informed by literature that centres relationality to examine everyday encounters in social spaces, including within educational and settler colonial contexts, I consider the complex consequences of such conditions as they normalize and uphold settler hegemony and distort and deny ever...
From fossil fuel corporations sponsoring climate change education (UBC Blog, 2022) to youth-washing international gatherings (Patterson and Linley-Mota, 2021), young people are bombarded, and simultaneously abandoned, by struggles for climate justice. Yet, youth are those whose generations will experience the brunt of decisions - and inaction - today. As the IPCC’s 2022 Report has identified, and as Indigenous scholars ...
There is a significant body of research examining the relationship between neighbourhood characteristics and child health and well-being and the mechanisms through which such effects may operate. Research investigating neighbourhood effects on children is based on the notion that individuals and families who live in a neighbourhood collectively create a social context and share a physical and institutional context that influences the developing child. In this paper...
There is a body of evidence that links neighbourhood census measures to measures of early child development (ECD), but some have argued that such compositional measures are limited. The use of Systematic Social Observation (SSO) methods to quantify attributes of neighbourhoods such as social and physical disorder is an important breakthrough, but there have been few studies on ECD. This paper examines the relationship between visual cues of neighbourhood disorder –...