Leaping pedagogy
Subtitle: visionary storying, collaborative art-making and lessons of salmon
By: by Lee Robertson Bensted.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Salmon -- Effect of human beings on -- British Columbia.; Salmon -- British Columbia.; Art in education.; Salmon -- Political aspects -- British Columbia.; Salmon fisheries -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia.
Description: Inquiry into human-nature relationships is a vital component of education for social/environmental transformation. In this thesis, I use a combination of coded, creative and collaborative inquiry to demonstrate that storying and collaborative art-making offer a unique lens through which to explore human relationships to salmon and to each other. The research is informed by my participation in the collaborative community arts project Telling Salmon Tales, and by stories, artwork, and writing about salmon. When rooted in a critical analysis of power relations, a commitment to global justice, and the principles of interdependency, relationships, regeneration, and community, this thesis illustrates how the holistic practices of storying and collaborative art-making can transform human relationships with the other-than-human and each other for the better. Finally, I illustrate that these practices can expand the conceptual boundaries of popular and transformative pedagogical practices and extend the opportunities for such learning to be engaged.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-118)

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