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【論壇】Walking and/as Critical Pedagogy

The continuous, extreme environmental breakdown in climate change and Covid surge has sent out an important message that we are in a planetary crisis where the very habitability of the earth is in question. While scientists and politicians propose efforts and solutions through revising policies, treaties or inventing new technologies, An increasing numbers of educators argues that a major part of our current ecological crisis stems from education (Orr 2004): We educate students to worry about making a living as if there is no planetary emergency; We teach students to be narrow technicians of knowledge who are morally sterile and who believe the world is divided into disciplines; We fail to bond minds and nature by providing students instrumental or theoretical knowledge that encourages being critical from a distance. This panel is an attempt to explore these issues and possible actions that could be taken to change the current education. It aims to create an interdisciplinary dialogue between two research traditions-Walking and ethnographic practice on foot (Ingold 2008), and critical pedagogy (Freire 1970, hook 1994, Giroux 1985). It invites audience to share their experiences, practices as well as concerns on how walking as a method could reconceptualize our teaching and research, and how these practices impact our understanding and practice of educators as “transformative intellectuals."

Keywords: walking, critical pedagogy, interdisciplinary dialogue

顧彩璇*／國立陽明交通大學科技與社會研究所助理教授

鄭肇祺^◎／國立臺東大學文化資源與休閒產業學系副教授

顧彩璇／國立陽明交通大學科技與社會研究所助理教授

林益仁／臺北醫學大學醫學人文研究所副教授

Dana E. Powell／美國阿巴拉契亞州立大學人類學系副教授

蔡晏霖／國立陽明交通大學人文社會學系副教授

Sean Michael Ferguson／美國維吉尼亞大學社會工程學系副教授