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clocks replaced with : ; . [Deschooling Time in the Small Isles]
1School of English, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Abstract:
The Scottish Small Isles - comprising Muck, Rùm, Eigg, Canna, and by extension, Coll - are geologically complex, with intersecting rock samples from the Archean (Lewisian Gneiss basements formed approximately 3 billion years ago), Proterozoic (Torridonian sandstone formed approximately 1 billion years ago), Mesozoic (sedimentation deposited approximately 200 million years ago) and Palaeocene (basalt formed approximately 55.8 million years ago as part of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum event). This practice research article - drawing on palaeontology, kinaesthetic learning and creative writing - takes the Small Isles as a case study for what geologist Marcia Bjornerud defines as a discernible "timefulness" that humans should seek to attain: "an acute consciousness of how the world is made by-indeed, made of-time" (2020, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, 5). Through their lithic intrusions, and interruptive strata, the Small Isles offer an alternative form of pedagogy: where multiple epochs, tenses and tempos visibly converse with one another; where "polytemporality" can be witnessed and physically experienced; where the notion of linear time is destabilised.
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