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Allodial Pedagogy for Land and Water Education

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Land and Water Education and the Allodial Principle

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the allodial principle and provides educators with an overview of the reasons that this principle would enable a paradigmatic shift in the way that Australian specialist in environmental, Indigenous, and legal studies, teacher educators, and teachers think about land and water education. Land and water are so basic to human life and students need to grapple with matters of sustainability and Indigenous entitlement into their future. People now living on lands and waterways that have been colonized, such as Australia, are taught to regard land and water in ways that have been fundamentally shaped by English and older European legal understandings. This chapter introduces the idea of allodial pedagogy, a critical, title-based pedagogy that invites educators to examine their worldview such that there is a fundamental shift in their pedagogical content knowledge and curricula vision. In short, this pedagogical approach asks that they begin from a different place in conceptualizing what they teach about land and water. From this different starting point, decisions about how to teach the core knowledge of one’s specialist areas will change and the ways of teaching it will also change.

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Ma Rhea, Z. (2018). Allodial Pedagogy for Land and Water Education. In: Land and Water Education and the Allodial Principle. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7600-8_1

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