collaborating for ecological thriving
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collaborating for ecological thriving 𓇢
Peer Reviewed Publications, Public Scholarship & Presentations
Presentations:
Publications:
Nxumalo, F., Madkins, T.C. & Mogale, T. (August 2025).Rooted in Solidarity: Leveraging Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge for Climate Resilience through School Garden Co-Design. Transformations Community/Earth System Governance (TC/ESG) Project in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Nxumalo, F. (August 2026, forthcoming). Resisting climate coloniality: (Re)storying climate change adaptation with young children in Eswatini and South Africa. Invited keynote for the 40th International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) World Congress. Ottawa, Canada.
Nxumalo, F. & Madkins, T.C. (July 2025). Thinking with Black ecologies in early childhood education. 5th International Sociology Association Forum, Rabat, Morocco.
Nxumalo, F. (May 2025). Undisciplining Routes: With gratitude to Black feminisms. Invited keynote for the 21st Gender & Education Association Conference. Conference theme: Re-Routing and Re-Imagining Gender and Education. Manchester, UK.
Nxumalo, F. (April, 2025). Invited panelist for AERA Presidential Session: Environmental Crises & Inequality AERA Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
Nxumalo, F., Rizarri, K. & Ali, S. (April, 2025). Title: Pedagogical encounters with gardens: Thinking with anticolonial possibilities. In symposium: Refiguring Presences in Garden-Based Education. AERA Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
ka Canham, H., Bam-Hutchinson, J., Craig, J. P., Nxumalo, F., & Madkins, T. C. (In Press, 2025). Insisting on relation: Hugo ka Canham & June Bam-Hutchison in conversation, Educational Philosophy and Theory. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2025.2548536
Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab. (2025). Indigenous Seasonal Calendar, Limpopo
Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab. (2025). Indigenous Seasonal Calendar, KwaZulu-Natal
Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab. (2025). Indigenous Seasonal Calendar, Gauteng
(Our Indigenous Seasonal Calendar booklets are designed through an iterative and collaborative process between participants, educators, and other community partners who participated in co-design circles held in Gauteng, Limpopo, and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. We are grateful for their time and patience, and for the lands and waters that sustain us all.)
