EDUCATING FOR SYMMETRICAL RELATIONALITIES: SOCIO-MATERIALISM AND ECOLOGICAL POST-HUMANISM

Considering the current fragile state of the planet in which human and non-human beings have to coexist, this essay aims to investigate some of the pos-sible lines of continuity between two different perspectives that define the need to rescale the role of humanity: socio-materialism and post-humanism from the educational point of view. The analysis and identification of the points of contact between socio-materialism and post-humanism in education have led to the proposed design of educational practices and relational learning en-vironments that can foster the connection between human beings and the rest of the world through the primacy of this relationship and interdependence. In particular, the essay defines the contribution that the ecodidactic perspective can make to the methodological and didactic shift from function to transactional and symmetrical relationality.