Jane Merewether
@janemerewether.bsky.social
Environmental education researcher on Noongar boodja (south western Australia). Thinking with feminisms, new materialisms and Indigenous knowledges.
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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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26 concepts to unlearn developmentalism + reimagine pedagogy as more-than-human, relational, feminist, hopeful.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
26 concepts to unlearn developmentalism + reimagine pedagogy as more-than-human, relational, feminist, hopeful.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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
She showed us that education could be done differently.
#ReggioEmilia #education #listening
April 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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
She showed us that education could be done differently.
#ReggioEmilia #education #listening
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This looks good! Just published. Congratulations to Marissa McClure Sweeny and Mona Sakr and all chapter authors. Cracking range 📖
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…
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February 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This looks good! Just published. Congratulations to Marissa McClure Sweeny and Mona Sakr and all chapter authors. Cracking range 📖
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“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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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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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.”
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February 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“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.
Read more ⤵️
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.
Read more ⤵️
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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...
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.
theconversation.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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?
January 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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.
John Marsden was a literary giant who changed lives. He was also a wonderful friend | Alice Pung
John Marsden was a literary giant who changed lives. He was also a wonderful friend | Alice Pung
In his writing, the author’s deep respect for young people was obvious. In his life, his love for and commitment to others was just as extraordinary
* John Marsden, author of Tomorrow, When the War Began, dies aged 74
The last time I heard from my…
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December 19, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Vale John Marsden. Not only a great writer but also a great educator who showed that schooling could be done differently.
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.
And here is mine and the magnificent @julieovington.bsky.social "we shift our gaze... to imagine walls as palimpsests... we imagine walls as multi-layered agentic objects that do more than hold shifting configurations of documentation." 🏢 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wall(ings): The early childhood story(ings) they tell
In putting posthuman theories to work, we shift our gaze beyond the human in two early education classrooms to imagine walls as palimpsests. By thinking-with palimpsests, we imagine walls as multi-...
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December 18, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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.
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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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December 10, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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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buff.ly/4iolWBf
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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...
December 8, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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...
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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
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
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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December 5, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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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
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
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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...
See link for section description - look forward to receiving submissions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Overview - Science Education - Wiley Online Library
The field of science education has long grappled with tensions and complexities, such as:
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December 3, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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...
See link for section description - look forward to receiving submissions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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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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 ...
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December 4, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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.
www.sbs.com.au/language/eng...
www.sbs.com.au/language/eng...
"... 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
In this conversation, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks about embracing a gift economy, and offers a framework for embodying a practical reverence: an ethic of care, reciprocity, and gratitude for the Earth. Listen to “Practical Reverence.”
emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...
emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...
December 2, 2024 at 10:32 AM
"... 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"
First Nations cultural knowledge has much to share with archaeology, palaeontology and Earth sciences.
‘Everything is Country’: these 4 projects blend First Nations knowledge and science to rewrite our understanding of the past
First Nations cultural knowledge has much to share with archaeology, palaeontology and Earth sciences.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:18 AM
"Everything is Country"
X's algorithm deprioritises posts with links, which essentially stifles news and journal articles. No wonder journalists and academics are leaving X in droves.
newrepublic.com/post/188794/...
newrepublic.com/post/188794/...
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.
newrepublic.com
November 27, 2024 at 12:19 PM
X's algorithm deprioritises posts with links, which essentially stifles news and journal articles. No wonder journalists and academics are leaving X in droves.
newrepublic.com/post/188794/...
newrepublic.com/post/188794/...
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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 💜
feministkilljoys.com/2020/12/07/c...
feministkilljoys.com/2020/12/07/c...
November 25, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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 💜
feministkilljoys.com/2020/12/07/c...
feministkilljoys.com/2020/12/07/c...
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Call for abstracts now open….
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.
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November 25, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Call for abstracts now open….
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The poster for “Contact Zones: A Masterclass in Continental Philosophy” is out!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Zoom link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640...
We look forward to seeing you there!
Zoom link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640...
November 19, 2024 at 5:40 PM
The poster for “Contact Zones: A Masterclass in Continental Philosophy” is out!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Zoom link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640...
We look forward to seeing you there!
Zoom link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640...
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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."
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...
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November 15, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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."
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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....
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...
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August 28, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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....
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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”
“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”
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.
placesjournal.org
November 15, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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”
“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”
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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
November 16, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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