From teacher doings to human beings: Ethical awakening in a wild pedagogies gathering

Abstract

This article explores a Wild Pedagogies (WP) gathering in Greece as a site of transformative professional and personal learning for educators. Against a culture of institutional alienation, the seven-day camp, informed by the touchstones of WP, operated as an embodied critique of standardized, control-oriented education. Using a “wilding” qualitative approach grounded in relational accountability, the inquiry emerged organically to trace how learning unfolded through deep time, communal living and more-than-human relations. Framed ethico-onto-epistemologically, the study shows how the gathering fostered shifts in relationality, temporal experience, identity and pedagogical understanding. Ultimately, the gathering functioned as a site of "ethical awakening," allowing educators to reclaim agency and reimagine educational futures rooted in care and reciprocity.