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This paper is comprised of written text and photographs of wild experiences that relive a series of ontological experiments. The text represents reflections on these experiences. The photographs, artistic expressions of the same experiences, have been made with a homemade pinhole camera—without a lens and viewfinder—thus demanding special sensual presence during creation. The form of this experimental work is reminiscent of a lyric philosophy that seeks to engage the participant—reader of text and viewer of images—with these experiments. Component pairings are arranged for viewing with text on the left and photographs on the right. Together these parings invite participants to explore patterned resonances in the world. Implicit throughout are considerations of relationships between wildness, wild learning, and a form of wild pedagogy.
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The pinhole pictures were made collaboratively by Bob Jickling and Stephanie and Andrew Potter. Stephanie and Andrew also answered my questions. The conversational quotations are by Stephanie Potter.
The this strikes into us…. Jan Zwicky (2002, p. 53, left).
All quotations are by Andrew Potter.
Andrew Potter answered my questions.
… the vibrant spoor…. Dennis Lee (2010, p. 22).
Stephanie and Andrew Potter answered my questions.
…How should we test a gestalt…. Dennis Lee (2010, p. 37).
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I am deeply grateful for insight and encouragements from Mario Villeneuve, Dianne Bos, Rishma Dunlop, Peter Jickling, Hannah Jickling and the Potter/Socha family.
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Jickling, B. Self-willed learning: experiments in wild pedagogy. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 10, 149–161 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-014-9587-y
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