ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the issue of advocacy pedagogy, that is, pedagogy with a clear normative agenda for the environment where students learn about environmental advocacy and are asked to consider how they might live more sustainably and become advocates in the future. It focuses on environmental advocacy and its importance within pedagogies of place. The chapter describes how students developed their dispositions and identities as environmental advocates through an extended story-mediated journey into Karawatha forest. Students are scaffolded at their schools and then at Karawatha to experience and explore the multiple aspects of the blanket role of environmental advocacy. The journey into Karawatha begins at a high point on its northern edge where the students enter the forest for the first time to follow a narrow winding track that is centimetres deep with ancient quartz crystals. The Storythread pedagogy at Karawatha is designed to hook students into the experiences of the forest through a variety of stories, tools and modes.
