[W]hen you ask people to think about what it means to be human and our relationships with our plant and animal relatives in lands and waters, there’s like a leap that people have to take.
The first leap is always an affective leap—it feels so good to be outside, it
feels so good to be listening to birds and watching the waves. All of that is important but it doesn’t help us to answer these larger questions of how do we understand territory, how do we understand migration, how do we understand our responsibilities to one another, how do we understand our stories, and how do we live our stories. So, the second leap is socio-political and temporal…
Walking is really powerful for lots of reasons. And walking along with reading land I don’t think is sufficient. I think it gets us to some of the affective spaces, but not necessarily spaces of reimagining, or remembering, or creation. The story part is vitally important and we have to ask who are we storying with, and what are we storying, and what are we storying towards. It’s not just about telling a story. It’s about the purpose, and the lived relations, and the *axiological dimensions. (Ananda Marin in Bang, Marin, Wemigwase, Nayak, & Nxumalo, 2022, pp. 158-159)
Reference:
Bang, M., Marin, A., Wemigwase, S., Nayak, P., & Nxumalo, F. (2022). Undoing human supremacy and white supremacy to transform relationships: An interview with Megan Bang and Ananda Marin. Curriculum Inquiry, 52:2, 150-161, DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2022.2052635
*From Google: What is the meaning of axiology in education?