canoe pedagogy and colonial history: exploring contested space of outdoor environmental education

abstract

in this paper, i explore how histories of colonialism are integral to the euro-western idea of wilderness at the heart of much outdoor environmental education. in the context of canoe tripping, i speculate about why the politics of land rarely enters into teaching on the land. finally, because learning from difficult knowledge often troubles the learner, i consider the pedagogical value of emotional responses to curricula that address colonial implication.