Nature-based teacher education as beyond ‘getting outside:’ relational attunement, attending to the un-noticed, and ethical responsibility
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
As in-service teacher educators, we take concerns about the environmental emergency and the crisis of colonialization seriously. We offer graduate programs in Place and Nature-based Experiential Learning to try and foster cultural change within mainstream schooling, while also preparing teachers for the immense challenge of teaching within the Anthropocene. In this article, we share four vignettes that describe experiences that contributed to important shifts in worldviews and ways of being with land for ourselves and/or our students, and we explore how this has led us to think differently about teaching and learning. Guided by Indigenous and eco-critical scholarship, we identified ecological pedagogical practices across the vignettes that contributed to such shifts, including relational attunement and attending to the un-noticed. We consider how this attending and attuning makes ethical demands that potentially puts us at odds with conventional dominant educational practices and expectations.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it