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Rewilding the Critical-Constructive Bildung Tradition with Nature as Co-Teacher: A Cross-Cultural Reimagination
Mid Sweden University.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3373-2641
University of Southern Denmark.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8229-6567
2026 (English)In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, ISSN 0814-0626, p. 1-19Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Modern Western education has been criticised for its human-centred orientation and for legitimising the exploitation of nature, thereby contributing to the environmental crisis. This article responds by rethinking a specific Northern European strand of the Bildung tradition, namely the modern critical-constructive approach associated with Humboldt and Klafki, as a pedagogical framework concerned with how teaching and educational practices could and should support processes of self-formation. Drawing on reflections from an international Wild Pedagogies (WP) gathering in Sweden, we engage the WP concept of Nature as Co-Teacher to develop three re-imaginations of critical-constructive approaches to Bildung. First, we reimagine Bildung as dialogical co-development in a more-than-human world. Second, we reimagine Bildung as place-specific pedagogical practices oriented towards engagement with, in, and for the living world. Third, we reimagine Bildung within a nature-, place-, and life-centred horizon in which the living world provides the highest context of meaning and value. Together, these re-imaginations contribute to ongoing debates in Environmental and Sustainability Education and related fields about how pedagogical traditions can respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene.

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2026. p. 1-19
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Bildung, ecological crisis, environmental education, nature as co-teacher
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Pedagogy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-57654DOI: 10.1017/aee.2026.10188ISI: 001793036700001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105042552862OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-57654DiVA, id: diva2:2073833
Available from: 2026-06-17 Created: 2026-06-17 Last updated: 2026-07-02Bibliographically approved

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