Ecotone Education

Welcome to Ecotone Education: a blog featuring tales of teaching and learning where boundaries meet!

In ecology, the ecotone is where two ecosystems merge or blend, where it’s hard to tell where one place ends and another begins. It’s where edges blur, and definitions bend.

It’s often where light and shadow meet, where prairies turn into forests or vice versa, depending on your perspective. It’s a “zone of tension.” It’s transitional. It sometimes even becomes a wholly new kind of place.

It’s also where we find the greatest biodiversity and species richness, where adaptation happens and evolution begins. 

So much of ecological education happens in educational ecotones because ecological education is - by nature, pun intended - interdisciplinary and multifaceted. Just try to teach ecology without teaching chemistry. Or to make quality field notes without art and poetry. And good luck with climate science if you don’t also acknowledge social science and economics. 

Ecotone Education (aka the Marram Collaborative blog) is a digital space for telling stories, sharing examples, and raising our voices about the joy and despair and difficulty and delight of ecological education in action. 

It’s a place for showcasing personal-professional artistry in our work-life as ecological educators. Do you have a story to tell? A work of art to display?

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Welcome. 

I am so glad you are here.