Outdoor Education, Frictions and our Common World: Similarities within Settler Colonialism
After reading the article De-Centering the Human in Multispecies Ethnographies by Pacini-Ketchabaw, Taylor & Blaise (2016), I noticed some similarities between this article and the article titled Frictions in Forest Pedagogies: Common Worlds in Settler Colonial Spaces also by Pacini-Ketchabaw (2013). The main similarity that I noticed was that both articles discussed the frictions that occur among human and more-than-human species, specifically the ways in which children interact with the environment around them without acknowledging the histories of these forests, especially within settler colonialism. The main difference I noticed between these articles is that the article by Pacini-Ketchabaw (2013) seems to be looking at frictions and early childhood education through traditional early childhood research practices, whereas the article by Pacini-Ketchabaw, Taylor & Blaise (2016) take a slightly different viewpo...