This book re-situates weather in early childhood education, examining people as inherently a part of and affected by nature, and challenges the positioning of humans at the centre of progress and decision-making.
Tonya Rooney is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood and Environmental Education at the Australian Catholic University. She is member of the Common Worlds Research Collective.
Mindy Blaise is a Vice Chancellor's Professorial Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for People, Place, and Planet, at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. She is a co-founder of the Common Worlds Research Collective and #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism.
Part 1: A Weather Learning Project. 1. Introduction. 2. Young children and environmental education. Part 2: Methods - Thinking, moving and writing with weather. 3. Thinking with weather. 4. Walking with weather. 5. Writing small weather stories. Part 3: Relations - Weathering with more-than-human worlds. 6. Bodies, atmospheres and affects. 7. Multi-species weather encounters. 8. Earth and deep weather times. Part 4: Responses - Learning and speculating in a climate change era. 9. Weather learning. 10. Conclusion: An invitation to weather together.