Educators foster ethical pedagogies by
- Acknowledging and responding to relations as always differentially situated within unequal and imperfect histories, presents and futures.
- Facilitating opportunities for and engagements in ethical and responsible connections with human and more-than-human others.
- Composing livable common worlds.
- Co-constructing opportunities within their common worlds in order to develop broad and deep connection to culture, language, and spiritual life.
- Facilitating opportunities for children to create hopeful futures within their common worlds.
- Co-constructing spaces that respond to the multitude of rhythms and flows within local common worlds (e.g., the rhythms of the land and the flows of the seasons).
- Creating opportunities to respectfully inquire about the protocols and symbolism of local common worlds.
- Facilitating opportunities to:
o recognize discrimination and inequity and respond appropriately,
o understand that all persons, species, and the land have value,
o accept and welcome differences,
o understand that individual and collective actions affect others, including the planet, and
o support the flourishing of sustainable living within common worlds.
- Co-constructing opportunities to:
o explore and learn with the world,
o discover place(s) and take responsibilities within the social, economic, political, cultural and spiritual institutions of their common worlds, and
o foster an ethics of care, obligation, and conviviality.
- Co-constructing opportunities to participate in the making, following, and re-working of rules, rituals, and procedures in their lifeworlds.
- Acknowledging and respectfully attending to the cultural identities and worldviews represented in the programs.
- Acknowledging and respectfully attending to the cultural identities and worldviews of the owners of the land the program is located in.