Educational relational networks: indigenous and feminist worlding. A response to Troy Richardson

ABSTRACT

This paper is a response to Troy Richardson’s Terence McLaughlin’s Lecture. In it, I discuss how Richardson provides a unique reading of relationality, drawing together technology studies, Indigenous Education and feminist philosophy of education. Seeking to walk with key ideas he develops, this response also points to a possible limitation in seeing Noddings ethic of care as part of a feminist relational ontology that can help inform new ways of understanding ‘machine learning’. In particular, I introduce the notion of worlding as a way of complementing Richardson’s reading of relationality – a notion that has profound implications for pedagogical practice.

KEYWORDS:

• Indigenous education
• feminism
• relational ontology
• pedagogical forms
• worlding

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