Highlighting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research at ECU
Marilyn Palmer’s previous research projects investigated sustainability, disaster recovery, mental health, and youth issues, within the context of the south west of Western Australia.
Learning cycles: Enriching ways of knowing place
Sandra Wooltorton Peta White Marilyn Palmer Len Collard
01-01-2020
We share a story about a katitjin bidi, a learning journey in a bioregion with a multimillennial Aboriginal history. As part of this katitjin bidi, three environmental educators implemented a place-ba..
We share a story about a katitjin bidi, a learning journey in a bioregion with a multimillennial Aboriginal history. As part of this katitjin bidi, three environmental educators implemented a place-based pedagogy called 'becoming family with place', while a fourth participated in the preplanning and final reflective stages. Our story includes cycles of ways of knowing, resulting in an enriched practice of being-with our place. Our story is underpinned by Aboriginal epistemologies to reimagine regenerative futures linked with those of 'the long now'-the past, present and future here now. Ours is a particular story that lives in a particular southwest place. There are layers of meanings that live right across the landscapes in the southwest of Australia- A nd many of them are hiding in full view. You might like to try this pedagogy in school learning, teacher education, and community education contexts.
Wooltorton, S., White, P., Palmer, M., & Collard, L. (2020). Learning cycles: Enriching ways of knowing place. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 37(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2..
Wooltorton, S., White, P., Palmer, M., & Collard, L. (2020). Learning cycles: Enriching ways of knowing place. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 37(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2020.15