Guiding Literature

Our emerging list of guiding literature and talks is a collection of academic and non-academic resources for those who are interested in learning and understanding the diverse transdisciplinary viewpoints we embrace in our practice. We aim to reflect our strong commitment to uplift historically silenced voices by elevating a variety of perspectives on this list. Our goal is to connect and collaborate by celebrating diverse voices and narratives, and we hope that this list is a reflection of our commitment to honoring differences and learning from them. We are excited to expand and grow our library of resources as we read, listen, and learn together.

We have been reading and the following academic writings in the field of the learning sciences and beyond have inspired us along the way. This is not a complete list but ever-growing along with our reading and learning journey. Please scroll to the bottom of the page for additional resources listed, including literatures and picture books, on Land, Soil, (Bio)Diversity, and Bodies/Food.

Archival Collection On Ways Of Knowing Grounded On Bodies-in-Places, the Land, and Water:

Adams, J. D. (2013). Theorizing a sense of place in a transnational community. Children Youth and Environments, 23(3), 43-65.

Bang, M., & Marin, A. (2015). Nature–culture constructs in science learning: Human/non‐human agency and intentionality. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52(4), 530-544.

Bang, M., Curley, L., Kessel, A., Marin, A., Suzukovich III, E. S., & Strack, G. (2014). Muskrat theories, tobacco in the streets, and living Chicago as Indigenous land. Environmental Education Research, 20(1), 37-55.

Czuy, K. (2020). Awakening the Mind: Indigenizing mathematics through local story. Unpublished doctoral dissertation at the University of Calgary.

Davis, N. R., & Schaeffer, J. (2019). Troubling troubled waters in elementary science education: Politics, ethics & black children’s conceptions of water [justice] in the era of flint. Cognition and Instruction, 37(3), 367-389.

Gutiérrez, K. D. (2016). Designing resilient ecologies: Social design experiments and a new social imagination. Educational Researcher, 45(3), 187-196.

Jurow, A. S., Teeters, L., Shea, M., & Van Steenis, E. (2016). Extending the consequentiality of “invisible work” in the food justice movement. Cognition and Instruction, 34(3), 210-221.

Marin, A., & Bang, M. (2018). “Look it, this is how you know:” Family forest walks as a context for knowledge-building about the natural world. Cognition and Instruction, 36(2), 89-118.

Marin, A. M. (2020). Ambulatory sequences: Ecologies of learning by attending and observing on the move. Cognition and instruction, 38(3), 281-317.

Nxumalo, F., & Ross, K. M. (2019). Envisioning Black space in environmental education for young children. Race Ethnicity and Education, 22(4), 502-524.

Rahm, J. (2002). Emergent learning opportunities in an inner-city youth gardening program. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 39(2), 164-184.

Simpson, L. B. (2014). Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 3(3).

Takeuchi, M. A., & Aquino Ishihara, V. (2021). Learning to assemble the hidden bodies: Embodied and emplaced mathematical literacy in transnational migrant activism. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 30(1), 103-12

Relational Science and Ancestral Science Podcast (by Dr. Kori Czuy) https://www.relationalsciencecircle.com/

Archival Collection On Transdisciplinarity:

Strong, L., Adams, J. D., Bellino, M. E., Pieroni, P., Stoops, J., & Das, A. (2016). Against neoliberal enclosure: Using a critical transdisciplinary approach in science teaching and learning. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 23(3), 225-236.

Takeuchi, M. A., Sengupta, P., Shanahan, M. C., Adams, J. D., & Hachem, M. (2020). Transdisciplinarity in STEM education: A critical review. Studies in Science Education, 56(2), 213-253.

Takeuchi, M.A. & Marin, A. (2022). “Globalization,” coloniality, and decolonial love in STEM education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1655

Literatures On Land, Soil, (Bio)Diversity, And Bodies/Food

Illustrated Books On Land, Soil, (Bio)Diversity, And Bodies/Food