In this written version of the 2019 Radford Lecture, I address the challenges of teaching and learning about ourselves and others--human and more-than-human others--at this moment of global precarity. In Part 1, I analyse emotions in the Anthropocene through the lens of carnivalesque "placestories." I conclude that we need to shift to a relational ontology and aesthetic sensibility based on kinship with the more-than-human. Part 2 explores pedagogies of love and enchantment and presents specific cases suggesting that children can shift to a relational ontology and aesthetic sensibility based on kinship. Part 3 takes up the troubles inherent in our current education system related to quiet citizenship. It asks how teachers might engage with students as activists on issues that matter to them in these precarious times.