Rewilding Education
Abstract In this keynote Professor Hilary Cremin will call for education to be rewilded. She urges educators of all kinds to radically rethink what the good life looks like in the 21st century, and what kind of education might flow from this. She talks about the catastrophic effects of modern systems of schooling and society more generally (including the catastrophic effects of capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism) and envisages a sustainable and rewilded future. She draws on poetry in this presentation in order to deepen and extend the ideas she is presenting.
Hilary Cremin
Prof Hilary Cremin is a research professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is currently Head of Faculty.
As a professor in the Faculty of Education at Cambridge Hilary researches conflict transformation and peace-building in and through education, in settings in the UK and elsewhere. She is working on new ways of exploring peace and rewilding education. She uses research methodology that values embodied, affective and relational perspectives. Recent work has been grounded in poetic enquiry and autoethnography.
She has co-developed a Positive Peace Toolkit which audits conflict and peace in educational settings, and which supports organisations to work towards, inner, outer, community, global and ecological peace The audit was developed in collaboration with Cambridge University Press and Assessment, and the wider activities for schools was developed as part of her role with Positive Peace Cambridge. Hilary has worked in the public, private and voluntary sector as a schoolteacher, educational consultant, project coordinator and academic. Her latest book with Terence Bevington is Positive Peace in Schools: Tackling Conflict and Creating a Culture of Peace in the Classroom, published by Routledge.
Her university profile can be accessed here.