Exploring Child-Soil Relations in the Anthropocene seeks to cultivate children’s, teachers’ and researchers’ attentiveness to soil through following, attuning to and thinking with soil in children’s immediate environments.  

Our intention is to go beyond the sensory experiences typically offered in early childhood education and deploy arts-based approaches which enable us to view soil through unfamiliar lenses. We are seeking ways to get closer to soil(s), to become worldly with soils, and to bring soil into what Affrica Taylor (2013) calls “common worlds” pedagogies. We want to approach soil from a position of care rather than aiming to master, control, or take from it.  

We ask how does soil relate? To humans, animals, plants, elements, Ancestral knowledges?  What emerges socially, personally, culturally, historically? 

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