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Extinction, Education And The Curious Practice Of Visiting Thrombolites, Brad Gobby, Jane Merewether, Annette Nykiel
Extinction, Education And The Curious Practice Of Visiting Thrombolites, Brad Gobby, Jane Merewether, Annette Nykiel
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© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Earth is in the midst of a recent acceleration in the rate of species extinction and the unravelling of ecological communities. The authors think with the emerging field of Extinction Studies to explore educational approaches to ecological endangerment and extinction. Using a notion of visiting as ‘curious practice’, we story encounters between the authors, young children and the endangered Noorook Yalgorup-Lake Clifton thrombolites and their ecological community in south-western Australia. These visits were not intended to teach about extinction or the thrombolites. Rather, our …