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Education as Re-embedding?Stroud Communiversity, Walking the Land and the Enduring Spell of the Sensuous Molly Scott Cato Reader in Green Economics Cardiff School of Management How we know is at least as important as what we know Hence our approach to teaching needs to begin with a re-exploration of our own approach to knowing our world: our pedagogy must be preceded by an ontology and an epistemology. ‘How do we know what exists?’ and ‘How do we know what is true?’ Deleuze’s suggestion that knowledge advances through a passionate commitment in relation to the physical world Merleau-Ponty’s suggestion that the basis of perception is relationship—but relationships with whom or what? How might our way of knowing might limit the extent of what we can know and how we learn and teach? For example, how might knowledge conveyed through an abstract system of writing differ from knowledge derived a community of song, like the Aboriginal songlines? a knotted string like the Incan quipu? ‘When travelling in Canada, the author discovered that people from different cultural backgrounds frame natural resources in very different terms: First Nations people in western Canada see the forests of British Columbia as sacred spaces. People from a European background see them as resources to be ‘used’ or ‘developed’ even if for leisure. The giving of land back to First Nations people in Canada elicited the complaint that they do not “do” anything with it. The idea that sometimes the point is to “be” rather than to “do” seems to have proved very hard to communicate.’ (Stock, 2009: 287) Reality through Relationship ‘social reality is not separate from us, but that social realities and ourselves are intimately interwoven as each shapes and is shaped by the other in everyday interactions’ (Cunliffe, 2008: 124) ‘The world and I reciprocate one another. The landscape as I directly experience it is hardly a determinate object; it is an ambiguous realm that responds to my emotions and calls