Journal article
Informal environmental learning: the sustaining nature of daily child/water/dirt relations
Environmental education research, Vol.26(9-10), pp.1313-1324
02/10/2020
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Abstract
This post-inquiry paper looks to the intimate matter of young children and their worlds outside of school. With new materialism, water and art as philosophical muse, a new kind of ‘sustaining nature’ for environmental education emerges, problematizing ‘sustainability’ as an aim. We gathered and exchanged short videos and field notes (iPhone artifacts) during morning and afternoon walks with young children in our everyday lives. In a playful moment, these are engaged with in relation to theoretical material on ‘art and sensation’ from philosophers, Deleuze (Citation2003), Grosz (Citation2008) and ontologies of water that do post-qualitative research playfully (Crinall Citation2017; Somerville Citation2017). We mutually emerge with relational pedagogies, conjuring the grace and gift of daily life with the matter of clay, dirt, deadbird, water, and home into an environmental learning that attunes bodies/minds to the significance, grace and gift of sustaining, artful everyday life.
Details
- Title
- Informal environmental learning: the sustaining nature of daily child/water/dirt relations
- Creators
- Sarah Crinall - Western Sydney UniversityMargaret Somerville - Western Sydney University
- Publication Details
- Environmental education research, Vol.26(9-10), pp.1313-1324
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991013173908402368
- Copyright
- (c) 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article