Expanding environmental awareness in education through the arts : crafting-with the environment / Biljana C. Fredriksen, Camilla Groth, editors.
This book presents diverse processes of crafting that bring humans, more-than-humans and the environment closer to one another and, by doing so, addresses personal and educational developments towards ecological awareness. It discusses the human-material relationship, introduces posthuman theoretica...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer,
[2022]
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| Series: | Landscapes ;
v. 33. |
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2022 English/International |
| Summary: | This book presents diverse processes of crafting that bring humans, more-than-humans and the environment closer to one another and, by doing so, addresses personal and educational developments towards ecological awareness. It discusses the human-material relationship, introduces posthuman theoretical entry points and reflects on the implementation of such theoretical perspectives in education. The practical examples of crafting-with the environment, the material practices and reflections posed in the book, provide insights into possible ways of levelling out human and material hierarchies. The chapters of this book give examples of artists and craftspeoples processes of thinking through materials and with materials, but also their reflections on how more-than-humans (animals and plants) craft from available materials, and how the environment and landscapes re-craft themselves through tedious processes of transformation. These case examples are founded on the authors own experiences with phenomena they are trying to understand and critically explore. This book is of interest to professional creative practitioners, art and craft educators, art teacher educators or researchers in the field of creative practices. It has power to inspire rethinking of present educational practices, to ignite critical reflections about materials and more-than-humans, and, hopefully, motivate transformations toward more ecologically sustainable ways of life. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789811948541 9789811948558 9811948542 9811948550 |