This paper takes a research orientation towards ethics and, in so doing, frames ethics as processes of inquiry and stories to be told. First, it explores ways that ethics might be ‘reimagined’, situated in everyday contexts and interpreted in ways that allow its stories to do work and invite readers...
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| Summary: | This paper takes a research orientation towards ethics and, in so doing, frames ethics as processes of inquiry and stories to be told. First, it explores ways that ethics might be ‘reimagined’, situated in everyday contexts and interpreted in ways that allow its stories to do work and invite readers and listeners to consider ethics. Second, it creates some openings to imagine ethics as a series of re-constructive experiments. Finally, this paper is an invitation to engage in ‘ethics research ’ within environmental education. Ethics Research in Environmental Education1 Twenty-five years ago I moved to the Yukon and began teaching in a small rural school. Most of the students were First Nations. It was a challenging job, but one that provided many lifelong lessons and I am indebted to many people for these opportunities. One important teacher was Mrs Lucy Wren, a community elder who came to the school to teach the Tlingit language, traditional crafts and to tell her stories. She was also my first environmental ethics teacher – though she wouldn’t call it that. Mrs Wren told many stories but I was most moved by the one about how owls came to be as they are today. She told me how, in the old days, owls were much larger than they are now and |
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