From Onto-sympathy and Ecological Awareness to Ethico-sympathy and Zoëlogical Interaction, Embodied Beings, and Pedagogy in an Anthropocene Age

It matters what world understanding we base educational theory and practice on. If it on an inherited Holocene scenic human-centered understanding, this leads to education understood as learning optimize the use of resources only solely for human needs. we, other hand, emerging Anthropocene dialogical life-centered supporting students become aware possibilities value being together with more-than-humans obtain experiences how co-create a joyful life. More specifically, is argued that onto-sympathy model proposed by Jane Bennett based might be helpful foster needed ecological awareness within field education. However, needs complemented idealistic ethico-sympathy model, also but paying more heed cautious action, focusing possibility zoëlogical interaction between humans more-than-humans. both models are used, becomes likely will begin gain developing ethical relationships able interspecies life-communities larger scale than today—both which ever in planetary history.