Claire Walsh – författare

Claire Walsh spent her twenties living the life she thought she was supposed to live, all the while playing hide and seek with depression. As a result, the road to recovery was the only travelling she did. Aged 32, single and living with her parents, she decided it was time to chart her own path. Booking a flight to South America, she let go of ‘at home Claire’ and opened herself up to a new world of possibilities. It was here she discovered freediving. Diving deep under water without the use of breathing apparatus, freediving is one of the most dangerous sports in the world, but at 60 metres below the surface, Claire discovered a fresh perspective that transformed her life and helped her find freedom. Under Water is Claire’s candid and captivating story of how holding her breath taught her to live.

This book explores postdevelopmental responses to environmental education, analyzing childhoods as they are produced within the geo-political epoch of the Anthropocene. Written by researchers based in Australia, Canada, Finland, Norway, South Africa, the UK and the USA, it addresses an urgent need to interrogate early childhood educational practices that seek to grapple with the destructive and irreversible processes of planetary crisis in which early childhood plays out. The chapters cover a range of themes and issues including the more-than-human, multispecies experiences, new materialism, Indigenous knowledge, issues of race and environmentalism, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, outdoor education, and urban and rural educational settings. The book offers a collective, active response to the normative and prevailing orthodoxy of developmental trajectories that have come to dominate pedagogical practice in early childhood contexts.