ABSTRACT
A fair number of the author's students have never actually camped out, and many more may have camped out only as a social experience. So they camp out together too, when they can, and also try for good stretches of solitude. Yet another enactment in her Philosophy of Education class may be an evening and a night alone in the woods, cellphones and laptops back at school, sometimes with special attention to what other beings or Earth elements manifest themselves in the spaces thereby opened up. In 2004, Patsy Hallen, Australian teacher–activist–writer–dreamer, invited her to co-teach her Radical Eco-Philosophy course out of Perth’s Murdoch University, which she organizes around 2 long backpack trips into the outback. Co-adventuring like this out on the edge of hyperanthropocentrized modernity is to come to the very center of the world if one looks at things from a larger-than-human perspective.
