Literacy and RESEARCH ARTICLE (PEER-REVIEWED) Numeracy Studies: Human-animal relationships in adult literacy An international journal in the education: Reading the Australian Magpie education and training of adults Roslyn Appleby University of Technology Sydney.
[email protected] Vol. 28, No. 1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/lns.v28i1.6958 Dec 2020 Article History: Received 27/11/2019; Revised 05/02/2020; Accepted 01/03/2020; Published 19/12/2020 © 2020 by the author(s). This Abstract is an Open Access article distributed under the terms This paper presents a case for the inclusion of human-animal relationships as a focus for of the Creative Commons adult literacy education. It outlines the ways in which language is implicated in human Attribution 4.0 International alienation from nature in a modern technology-focused life, and discusses the effects (CC BY 4.0) License (https:// of nature-deficit disorder on human well-being. It calls for an ‘entangled pedagogy’ creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), allowing that attends to stories of local wildlife, and points to the importance of such a pedagogy third parties to copy and for particular groups of adult literacy learners, including international students, new redistribute the material in migrants and recent refugees, who may be unfamiliar with the flora and fauna of their new any medium or format and to environment. As an example of entangled pedagogy the paper presents ideas for literacy remix, transform, and build lessons based on the iconic Australian Magpie whose relationship with humans is, at upon the material for any times, problematic.