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Alice Among the Trees. The Forest Home of Imagination

Summary/Abstract: Endorsing Gert Biesta’s concept of pedagogy as “educative participation”, we understand it as participation that transforms the views and human conduct of all who participate in it. Therefore, this essay is an attempt at reading the second volume of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and Saint-Exupery’s Le Petit Prince as texts which can provide us with an illuminating insight into the ways of, first, critically observing and then, second, improving our perceptions of nature, swerving them toward cooperation with rather than a mere use of. Andrzej Nowak’s term “ontological imagination” turns out helpful in understanding the world as an intricate and ever-growing network of human and non-human connections forming oikos, space which not only provides living conditions but is itself alive. Hence, we propose a geo-logical pedagogy, that serves oikos, overcoming the limitations of pedagogy based on a libidinal desire for domination, as well as that rooted in an equally libidinal desire for possession.

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