Guerrero Hernández, Gonzalo; (2022) Community-Based Outdoor Science Education in Chile: A Contribution to Expanding Networks within Pro-Eco-Justice Dispositifs. Journal for Activist Science and Technology Education , 12 (1)

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Abstract

Chile has been exposed to multiple climatic risks, such as extreme droughts, scarcity of water resources, forest fires, floods, glacial retreats, and others. Impacts of such global phenomena on the region – without any mitigation measures – are likely to be complex, given vulnerability criteria set forth by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In this scenario, it is urgent to think about new approaches to change perspectives and practices of science educators in ways that may develop new networks to address the above challenges. For this paper, I present an ongoing community-based outdoor project aimed at promoting awareness, empathy, and activism towards expanding networks within ecojustice dispositifs. The project is co-designed among researchers, park rangers and pre- and in-service teachers from a Chilean university. This paper aimed at answering the following research questions: To what extent might community-based outdoor education promote increased development of pro-ecojustice dispositifs. In this paper, I present one of the first stages of the project where a map and an atlas was used to collect information about socioenvironmental conflicts in Chile. With this information, we planned and developed an outdoor science activity in a national reserve. The research opted for a qualitative approach to understanding design and implementation processes of outdoor education through community-based participatory research. At answering this research question, a socio-environmental conflict is presented as a distributed network of living, nonliving and symbolic actants, based on Actor-Network-Theory, which might affect present and future water management in Santiago, Chile. The main results of the research revealed potential benefits of Actor Network Theory as an obligatory passage point in the problematisation stage of processes developing more ecojustice dispositifs. This ongoing project appears as a potential contribution to expanding networks within eco-justice dispositifs to challenge anthropocentrism and processes of neoliberalisation of nature.

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