MovementScapes as ecomotricity in ecopedagogy. Issue 2 (15th March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rodrigues, Cae
• Is Part Of: Journal of environmental education. Volume 49:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 88
• Page End: 102
• Publication Date: 2018-03-15
• Subjects: ecophenomenology -- environmental aesthetics -- environmental education research -- human motricity -- physical/sport education; Environmental education -- Periodicals; 333.7207
• DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2017.1417222
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0095-8964

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This elaboration of an ecopedagogy in movementscapes aims to present an empirically informed account of the concept of ecomotricity as manifested in the living body interacting in/with nature (human-and-other-than-human). This interaction is ludic (where pleasure or joy/happiness gives meaning to the lived experience) and ecological (ecosomaesthetic-environmentally ethical-ecopolitical) and provides for revitalized and animated ecopedagogical practices (and research). Critical examples and insights are presented as praxical evidence of how the ecophenomenological and ludic essence of ecomotricity challenges individuals in particular movementscapes to question their ways of being-in-the-world as a form of ecobecoming potentiality. This step towards the (de)(re)construction of environmentally oriented outdoor experiential learning in moving body-time-space relationalities is, potentially, significant to overcoming some of the ontological limits to rational change too often uncritically presumed pedagogically regarding human-nature relations.