The co-authors, collaborators in garden-based teacher education, question the hegemony of grids in Western time, space and relationship structures in education, while also delving into our own complicity and entanglement with these grids. We ask: (1) Can we reject the grid in environmental education and in garden-based learning when it is an intimate part of our way of being in the world? (2) Can we be teachers who are at once within and not-within the regime of the Western Enlightenment/Modernist grid? (3) How can we take a ludic approach to the grid? Can we ‘swing’ and ‘parkour’ the strict grid of schooling? Pleasures and failures of the grid and experiences of alternatives to the grid are documented and exemplified through stories from garden-based teacher education. Considering parallels with principles of the alter-global movement and with the performative, embodied practices of swing dance, parkour and clowning, we meditate on becoming ecological teachers together beside the grid — neither within nor without it, but with a deep awareness of its presence and structure. In uncertain, unchanging times, we want to take a playful, artistic approach to the old certainties and structures, swinging and parkouring from them rather than accepting or rejecting binary formulations.

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让教师与花园共舞，或如何在严格的教育网格中摇摆或跑酷

共同作者，花园式教师教育的合作者，质疑网格在西方时间、空间和教育关系结构中的霸权，同时也深入研究了我们自己与这些网格的共谋和纠葛。我们问：（1）当网格是我们在世界上存在方式的亲密部分时，我们能否在环境教育和基于花园的学习中拒绝网格？(2) 我们能否成为既在西方启蒙/现代主义网格体制内又不在其内的教师？(3) 我们怎样才能对网格采取一种有趣的方法？我们可以“摇摆”和“跑酷”严格的学校教育吗？网格的快乐和失败以及网格替代方案的经验通过基于花园的教师教育的故事被记录和举例说明。考虑到与alter-global运动的原则以及摇摆舞、跑酷和小丑的表演性、具体化实践的相似之处，我们沉思着在网格旁边一起成为生态教师——无论是在网格内还是在网格外，但对它的存在有着深刻的认识和结构。在不确定、不变的时代，我们希望对旧的确定性和结构采取一种有趣的、艺术的方式，从它们中摇摆和跑动，而不是接受或拒绝二元公式。