Preamble

A more cultured introduction for this project will be coming soon, but for now I can at least offer a semi-crude outline…

• The Holocene Epoch has ended.
• Most contemporary educational attitudes, beliefs, discourses, habits, practices, and curricula evolved in the (late) Holocene to create distinctly Holocene pedagogies.
• Holocene pedagogies are well suited to the Holocene Epoch.
• But we are now in a new geological Epoch; the Anthropocene Epoch is already here!
• For the first time in the Earth’s history, human societies–albeit some societies more than others–have collectively exerted forces upon the Earth greater in scope and scale than many so-called natural ones.
• Holocene pedagogies are not particularly well-suited to the Anthropocene.
• We need to invent new pedagogies; we need a suite of pedagogies uniquely-tuned to/for the Anthropocene (and we need them now).

“Education in the Holocene”

“Holocene, Interrupted”

“Education in the Anthropocene”

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