Kristin Elaine Reimer · Mervi Kaukko · Sally Windsor · Kathleen Mahon · Stephen Kemmis Editors Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All Volume 1: Current Practices of Social Justice, Sustainability and Wellbeing Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All · · Kristin Elaine Reimer Mervi Kaukko · · Sally Windsor Kathleen Mahon Stephen Kemmis Editors Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All Volume 1: Current Practices of Social Justice, Sustainability and Wellbeing Editors Kristin Elaine Reimer Mervi Kaukko Faculty of Education Faculty of Education and Culture Monash University Tampere University Clayton, VIC, Australia Tampere, Finland Sally Windsor Kathleen Mahon Faculty of Education Faculty of Librarianship Information University of Gothenburg Education and IT Gothenburg, Sweden University of Borås Borås, Sweden Stephen Kemmis School of Education Charles Sturt University Wyoming, NSW, Australia ISBN 978-981-19-7984-2 ISBN 978-981-19-7985-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7985-9 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023. 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The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore Preface This is the first of two volumes that seek to explore the critical question for our era: ‘What, for our times, does it mean to live well in a world worth living in for all?’ This question conveys the essence of the work of the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis (PEP) international research network. Stephen Kemmis, one of the founders of PEP, brought this important question to life when he proposed that the double purpose of education is to help people live well in a world worth living in for all. Since 2006, PEP has joined educational researchers from across different intel- lectual traditions, different languages and different geographical locations to explore what ‘good’ education means and how researchers, educators and practitioners can work to bring that world worth living in for all into reality. The World Worth Living In project, across the two volumes, connects 30 individual studies—focused on praxis, well-being, social justice and sustainability—conducted by researchers in six countries, all of whom are associated with the PEP network. In each study, researchers listen deeply to a range of individuals and collectives as they respond to the above question, ensuring that understandings of ‘living well’ and ‘a world worth living in for all’ genuinely reflect diversity both within and across nations. With the COVID-19 pandemic re-configuring priorities and practices, and with well-being and sustainability increasingly recognised as critical for our global existence, this project is both urgent and timely. The two volumes focus on the following three questions: . What does it mean to live well? . What is a world worth living in for all? . What, for our times, does it mean to live well in a world worth living in for all? This first volume focuses on people’s current experiences within the world: How is education enabling or constraining people to live well and to bring into reality a world worth living in for all? The second volume focuses on the future: What can we learn so that we can create change in educational policy and practice in order to enact praxis? The volumes will be accompanied by a multimedia component. Please find more about the World Worth Living In Project—including short films and podcast v vi Preface episodes—at https://www.monash.edu/education/wwli. Join the conversation and help move us toward a better future where education consistently helps us live well and helps us create a world worth living in for all. Clayton, Australia Kristin Elaine Reimer Tampere, Finland Mervi Kaukko Gothenburg, Sweden Sally Windsor Borås, Sweden/Brisbane, Australia Kathleen Mahon Wyoming, Australia Stephen Kemmis Acknowledgments This volume is only possible thanks to the sustained commitment and full-hearted work of the members of the PEP international research network and their colleagues. We value their support in the initiation and realisation of this project. We also wish to acknowledge the voices and perspectives of a vast range of people and communities who have allowed us to listen to them in this volume. In listening for the answers to the question ‘What, for our times, does it mean to live well in a world worth living in for all?’, we acknowledge the voices and wisdom of: . Aboriginal leaders in Australia; . Young people in Australian schools; . Teachers in Swedish-speaking schools in rural Finland; . Leaders in Steiner schools in Australia; . Australian Aboriginal youth; . International university students in Sweden; . Asylum-seeking students in Australia; . Refugee youth in Finland, Norway and Scotland; . Families with children who tube-feed in Australia; . Climate activists in Finland. Thank you for helping us think through—and act into being—a world worth living in for all. vii Contents 1 Searching for Worlds Worth Living in ........................... 1 Mervi Kaukko, Sally Windsor, and Kristin Reimer 2 Education for Living Well in a World Worth Living in ............ 13 Stephen Kemmis 3 Why Listen? Student Voice Work Defended: Students as ‘Expert Witnesses’ to Their Experiences in Schools and Other Sites of Learning .................................... 27 Susan Groundwater-Smith 4 The Heart of the Small Finnish Rural School: Supporting Roots and Wings, Solidarity and Autonomy ...................... 47 Gunilla Karlberg-Granlund 5 Leading for Love, Life, Wisdom, and Voice in Steiner Schools: Constraints and Conditions of Possibility ........................ 69 Virginia Moller 6 The Sand Through My Fingers: Finding Aboriginal Cultural Voice, Identity and Agency on Country .......................... 87 Christine Edwards-Groves 7 Leading by Listening: Why Aboriginal Voices Matter in Creating a World Worth Living in ............................ 115 Catherine Burgess, Christine Grice, and Julian Wood 8 Practices and Experiences in Educational Researcher Training: Reflections from Research Students Exploring the Theme, Living Well in a World Worth Living in During the Covid-19 Pandemic ........................................ 137 Sally Windsor and Amoni Kitooke ix x Contents 9 Partnering for Hope: Agentic Narrative Practices Shaping a World Worth Living in ....................................... 153 Sally Morgan 10 Keeping Each Other Safe: Young Refugees’ Navigation Towards a Good Life in Finland, Norway, and Scotland ........... 173 Nick Haswell, Mervi Kaukko, Marte Knag Fylkesnes, and Paul Sullivan 11 “The Kitchen is My Favrote Place in the House”: A World Worth Living in for Children with Feeding Difficulties and Their Families ............................................ 191 Nick Hopwood, Henry Gowans, Jessica Gowans, Kate Disher-Quill, and Chris Elliot 12 Facing the Climate Crisis, Acting Together: Young Climate Activists on Building a Sustainable Future ....................... 211 Tomi Kiilakoski and Mikko Piispa 13 Finding Worlds Worth Living in ................................ 225 Stephen Kemmis and Kathleen Mahon Index ............................................................. 235 Contributors Catherine Burgess The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia Kate Disher-Quill Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia Christine Edwards-Groves School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Southport, QLD, Australia Chris Elliot Department of Paediatrics, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia; Department of Community Child Health, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, Randwick, Australia Marte Knag Fylkesnes Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Child Welfare; and the Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE), Bergen, Norway Henry Gowans Sydney, Australia Jessica Gowans Sydney, Australia Christine Grice The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia Susan Groundwater-Smith The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia Nick Haswell Tampere University, Tampere, Finland Nick Hopwood Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia Gunilla Karlberg-Granlund Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland Mervi Kaukko Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland Stephen Kemmis Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia Tomi Kiilakoski Finnish Youth Research Network, Tampere University, Oulu, Finland xi