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- Title
Human-animal relationships in adult literacy education: Reading the Australian Magpie.
- Authors
Appleby, Roslyn
- Abstract
This paper presents a case for the inclusion of human-animal relationships as a focus for adult literacy education. It outlines the ways in which language is implicated in human alienation from nature in a modern technology-focused life, and discusses the effects of nature-deficit disorder on human well-being. It calls for an 'entangled pedagogy' that attends to stories of local wildlife, and points to the importance of such a pedagogy for particular groups of adult literacy learners, including international students, new migrants and recent refugees, who may be unfamiliar with the flora and fauna of their new environment. As an example of entangled pedagogy the paper presents ideas for literacy lessons based on the iconic Australian Magpie whose relationship with humans is, at times, problematic.
- Subjects
ADULT literacy; ADULT education; LITERACY education; MAGPIES; ADULT students; HUMAN-animal relationships
- Publication
Literacy & Numeracy Studies, 2020, Vol 28, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
1441-0559
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5130/lns.v28i1.6958