Book chapter
Propositions for an environmental arts pedagogy : a/r/tographic experimentations with movement and materiality
Research handbook on childhoodnature : assemblages of childhood and nature research, pp.1-29
Springer international handbooks of education, Springer
2018
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Abstract
This chapter works through a series of methodological experimentations with movement and materiality in order to explore the potentials of environmental arts pedagogies. We address the question of what environmental arts pedagogies might come to look like in the ever-changing contexts of children’s social and environmental worlds. This leads us to engage with the movements and materialities of learning environments as they come to co-compose pedagogical encounters. In doing so, we draw on new materialist accounts of matter as agentic, fluid, and dynamic; movement as a choreographic architecting of experience; and a/r/tographic approaches to pedagogical engagement and embodied practice. Taking up the use of concepts as methods, we develop a series of artistic and pedagogical experimentations with concepts of “corridors,” “flight,” “viscosity,” and “construction.” In teasing out the implications of these concepts for an environmental arts pedagogy, we combine imagery and text to both render and diagram the movement of bodies, materials, and environments in passage through each of these four conceptual enactments. This leads us to develop a series of propositions for an environmental arts pedagogy based on our creative research process. In doing so, we aim to sketch the contours of an environmental arts pedagogy that combines the speculative imagination with embodied, sensorial, and empirical experiences.
Details
- Title
- Propositions for an environmental arts pedagogy : a/r/tographic experimentations with movement and materiality
- Creators
- David Rousell - Manchester Metropolitan UniversityAlexandra Lasczik Cutcher - Southern Cross UniversityPeter J Cook - Southern Cross UniversityRita L Irwin - University of British Columbia
- Contributors
- Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (Editor of compilation) - Southern Cross University, School of EducationKaren Malone (Editor of compilation) - Southern Cross University, School of EducationElisabeth Barratt Hacking (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Research handbook on childhoodnature : assemblages of childhood and nature research, pp.1-29
- Series
- Springer international handbooks of education
- Publisher
- Springer; Cham, Switzerland
- Identifiers
- 2993; 991012821726302368
- Copyright
- © 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
- Academic Unit
- School of Education; Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Students; Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter