Mulholland, J.;
Jones, V.;
Pawson, C.;
Harrison, L.;
(2025)
De-bordering solidarities: using eco-craftivism as an eco-social pedagogy in primary education.
International Journal of Social Pedagogy
, 14
(1)
, Article 8. 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2025.v14.x.008.
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Abstract
Critical social pedagogy has developed in a manner that is both complex and situationally embedded, but manifesting common threads of inclusion, participation and care in pursuit of social justice and well-being. Solidarity sits at the heart of the critical social pedagogical project, though not without contestation around the nature of its deployment. Eco-social pedagogy broadens the concerns of critical social pedagogy, foregrounding the importance of ecological solidarities, in conjunction with intra-human solidarities, in recognition of the interdependency of social and ecological needs. This article argues that eco-social pedagogy would benefit from an even fuller ‘de-bordering’ of solidarity, incorporating a third solidarity – a solidarity with things. Societal transformation for a just sustainability can be supported by an eco-social pedagogy that builds learning opportunities at the intersection of these three solidarities. Drawing on data from a project with 120 UK pupils, aged eight to nine, we discuss the role that eco-craftivism may serve as an eco-social pedagogy, functioning as a catalyst for developing holistic, de-bordered solidaristic understandings, motivations and actions in the face of our current ecological and social justice crisis. We demonstrate how a solidarity with things can build a more holistic and collective narrative, serving as a gateway towards ecological and intra-human solidarities.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | De-bordering solidarities: using eco-craftivism as an eco-social pedagogy in primary education |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2025.v14.x.008 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2025.v14.x.0... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025, Jon Mulholland, Verity Jones, Chris Pawson and Lizzie Harrison. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | eco-social pedagogy, solidarity, primary education, craft, craftivism |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10214190 |
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