ABSTRACT
In-class activity arose as a way to explore the deep and often hidden meanings and associations people have with/in their environment. This activity was inspired by close readings of articles that promote the ethical responsibility of speaking up for the more than human environment, and questioning and problematizing what happens when they do "speak for" the non-human world. Guide participants using the instructions provided, to explore the following learning objectives: develop awareness and insight into their shared anthropocentric mindsets, question biases, and reframe personal positions on how they speak for/to/as nature. In the in-class activity, students explore speaking for, with, and as the more than human world. Students may realize, and begin to play with, the underlying complexity of how humans assign value to all non and more than human objects, entities, and processes in their environment. Evaluation begins with a debrief where partners take off their cards and discover "who they are".
