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ERIC Number: ED597260
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Apr-12
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-
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Gaia Taking Back Disneyland: Rewilding Childhood
Hauk, Marna
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Washington, DC, Apr 8-12, 2016)
This paper aims to unstick domination narratives embedded in Disneyland by using creative imagination and futurecast cultural imaginaries in which the earth system reinhabits agentic powers. I seek to open up alternative understandings of non-dominated, regenerative creativities in order to begin to heal the colonized imagination of Disneyland and the colonized notions of childhood it otherwise proliferates. I explore the underbelly of the pervading land of childhood creativity to reclaim the roots of magic, animistic co-affiliation, trans-species collaborative creativity, and matrixial embedment within the generative living systems of the planetary. Focusing on the actual, physical genesis place of Disney, the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim California, I consider, through three disruptions, what is possible in a future imaginary. Here, Gaia breaks through Disneyland and the imagination of the Earth liberates the curriculum of consumption and the domestication of magic toward a notion of childhood education that is creative, collaborative, and connective.
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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