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Jardine, University of Calgary, Canada  \nAbstract  \nThis paper explores the ecological and pedagogical images hidden within a tale of the author's returning to the placed he was raised and going for a birding walk with some old friends.  \nRésumé  \nCet article explore les images écologiques et pédagogiques cachées dans l'histoire de l'auteur qui revient aux lieux de son enfance et s'en va faire une randonnée d'observation des oiseaux avec quelques vieux amis.  \nI went birding last summer with some old friends through the Southern Ontario summer forests where I was raised, crackling full of song-birds and head-high ferns and steamy heat. It was, as always, a great relief to return to this place from the clear airs of Alberta where I have lived for eleven years—academic, Faculty of Education, curriculum courses, practicum supervision in the often stuffy, unearthly confines of some elementary schools.  \nAs with every time I return here, it was once again a surprise to find how familiar it was, and to find how deeply I experience my new home in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains through these deeply buried bodily templates of my raising. It is as if I bear a sort of hidden ecological memory of the sensuous spells (Abram 1996) of the place on Earth into which I was born. How things smell, the racket of leaves turning on their stems, how my breath pulls this humid air, how birds songs combine, the familiar directions of sudden thundery winds, the rising insect drills of cicada tree buzzes that I remember so intimately, so immediately, that when they sound, it feels as if this place itself has remembered what I have forgotten, as if my own memory, my own raising, some of my own life, is stored up in these trees for safe keeping.  \n92 Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 3, Spring 1998  \nCicadas become archaic storytellers telling me, like all good storytellers, of the life I'd forgotten I'd lived, of deep, fleshy, familial relations that worm their ways out of my belly and breath into these soils, these smells, this air.  \nAnd I'm left shocked that they know so much, that they remember so well, and that they can be so perfectly articulate.  \nI became enamoured, during our walk, with listening to my friends’ conversations about the different birds that they had been spotting. They spoke of their previous ventures here, of what had been gathered and lost, of moments of surprise and relief, of expectation and frustration. Their conversations were full of a typeof discipline, attention and rich interpretive joy, a pleasure taken ina way of knowing that cultivated and deepened our being just here, in this marsh, up beside these hot, late-afternoon sun-yellowy limestone cliffs.  \nUpdraughts had pulled a hawk high up above our heads. We spotted a red-winged blackbird circling him, pestering, diving.  \nSudden blackbird disappearance.  \nHawk remained, over a hundred feet overhead, backlit shadowy wing penumbras making it hard to accurately spot.  \nWhere had that blackbird gone?  \n“There. Coming down the cliff face.”  \nSudden distinctive complaint around our heads. He had spotted us as worse and more proximate dangers to this marsh than the hawk that'd been chased far enough away for comfort.  \nMy friends' conversations were, in an ecologically important sense, of a kind with the abundance of bird songs and flights that surrounded us—careful, measured, like speaking to like, up out of the hot and heady, mosquitoed air. And, standing alongside them there, sometimes silent, certainly unpractised in this art, involved a type of learning that I had once known but, like cicadas, long-since forgotten.  \nI had forgotten the pleasure to be had in simply standing in the presence of people who are practised in what they know and listening, feeling, watching them work.  \nI had forgotten the learning to be had from standing alongside and imitating, practising, repeating, refining the bodily ","cbCaicm2Svo9bkhz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicm2Svo9bkhz","pdf",122340,"English","# Abstract\n## Ecological and pedagogical framing\n## Returning to place and sensory memory\n## Learning through conversation and observation\n## Cicadas as teachers","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the paper?\",\"answer\":\"The paper examines ecological and pedagogical images hidden in the author’s story of returning to childhood places and going birding with old friends.\"},{\"question\":\"How does returning to the author’s upbringing influence the narrative?\",\"answer\":\"Returning to the childhood setting triggers vivid sensory recollections and a sense of embodied ecological memory, linking the present experience to long-forgotten learning.\"},{\"question\":\"What role do friends’ conversations play in the learning described?\",\"answer\":\"Friends’ discussions model disciplined attention and interpretive joy, describing birds they have spotted and sharing experiences of surprise, relief, expectation, and frustration.\"}]","Birding Lessons and the Teachings of Cicadas | PDF",1792084564]