This book explores why the concept of wild pedagogy is an essential aspect of education in these times; This collaborative work will be of interest to students and scholars of wild pedagogies, alternative education and the Anthropocene, and for all those engaged in re-wilding education.

Chapter 1. Why Wild Pedagogies?; The Crex Crex Collective.- Chapter 2. On Wilderness and Wildness; The Crex Crex Collective.- Chapter 3. On the Anthropocene; The Crex Crex Collective.- Chapter 4. On Education; The Crex Crex Collective.- Chapter 5. Six Touchstones for a Wild Pedagogy; The Crex Crex Collective.- Chapter 6. Afterwords; The Crex Crex Collective.

‘This book leads an attack on the domestication of learning, the creeping formality, the structures and control, the standardizing, the separation of each of us from ourselves and our physical reality. This is a portrait of the physicality of children and the need to embrace this in education; the need to see education as humans in the world; the need to experiment with ideas and words that give meaning to our intuitions. An important argument. An important book.’—John Ralston Saul, essayist and novelist
This book explores why the concept of wild pedagogy is an essential aspect of education in these times; a re-negotiated education that acknowledges the necessity of listening to voices in a more than human world, and (re)learning how to dwell in a place. As the geological epoch inexorably shifts to the Anthropocene, the authors argue that learning to live in and engage with the world is increasingly crucial in such times of uncertainty. The editors and contributors examine what wild pedagogy can truly become, and how it can be relevant across disciplinary boundaries: offering six touchstones as working tools to help educators forge an onward path. This collaborative work will be of interest to students and scholars of wild pedagogies, alternative education and the Anthropocene, and for all those engaged in re-wilding education.

Bob Jickling is Professor Emeritus at Lakehead University, Canada.
Sean Blenkinsop is Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.  Nora Timmerman is Lecturer at Northern Arizona University, USA. Michael De Danann Sitka-Sage (formerly Michael W. Derby) is Researcher at Simon Fraser University, Canada. 

“Wild Pedgogies leads an attack on the domestication of learning, the creeping formality, the structures and control, the standardizing, the separation of each of us from ourselves and our physical reality. Here's a portrait of the physicality of children and the need to embrace this in education; the need to see education as humans in the world; the need to experiment with ideas and words that give meaning to our intuitions. An important argument. An important book.” (John Ralston Saul, award-winning essayist and novelist)

“This seminal book is stunning. It offers educators and researchers genuine avenues or what the authors call touchstones for troubling dominant education systems. Jickling, Blenkinsop, Timmerman and Sitka-Sage offer “wild hope” in wild times where the planet has entered a new geologic era—the Anthropocene.  Books like this are desperately needed to shift education into a new wild era where teachers are supported in returning to or opening up their own wildness in pedagogy.  It is a return to what Leopold eloquently describes as “growing down,” honouring wild childhoods.” (Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Sustainability, Environment & Education (SEE) Research Cluster, Southern Cross University, Australia)

“Set in the most important of all contexts—with the future of life on our planet at stake—this book reminds us that whilst we can and must learn in and through wild (and perhaps not-so-wild) places, modern education systems around the world must also learn and adapt, and with urgency. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in education and its role in supporting the health of planet Earth—and surely that should mean all of us!” (Peter Higgins, Professor of Outdoor and Environmental Education and Director the Edinburgh Global Environment & Society Academy, University of Edinburgh)

“An antidote to the steady drumbeat of environmental decline, Wild Pedagogies invites readers on a wilderness-soaked journey ofhope, connection, and joy. This thought-provoking, edited volume is a clarion call for the (re)wildling of education. Through beautifully crafted prose, it offers a vision for learning that leads with the landscape, de-centers the human, and positions educators as “agents of discovery.” Essential reading for anyone who has looked longingly out of a classroom window and wondered “what if…?”” (Nicole M. Ardoin,  Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, USA)

Examines the concept of wild pedagogies as the geological epoch shifts to the Anthropocene Analyses the potential of wild pedagogy for the present and future Proposes six touchstones that can help educators and practitioners incorporate wild pedagogies into learning

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