Sustaining Childhood Natures
The Art of Becoming with Water
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Beschreibung
This book examines sustainability learning with children, art and water in the new material, posthuman turn. A query into how we might sustain (our) childhood natures, the spaces between bodies and places are examined ontologically in daily conversations. Regarding philosophy, art, water and her children, the author asks, how can I sustain waterways if I am not sustaining myself?Theoretically disruptive and playful, the book introduces a new philosophy that combines existing philosophies of the new material and posthuman kind. The ecological sciences, and the arts, are drawn together / apart to help recognize sustainability in its emergent, relational form. All the while this book, as art, engages and flows over the reader – as such, reading it becomes a transformative, meditative experience. Daily rhythms of ‘being-with’ art, water and children take the reader beyond orientations of environmental education that focus on notions of lack and reduction. New possibilities for sustaining childhood natures – for what is becoming, and unbecoming – emerge here in the making processes of an academic, everyday life in early motherhood.
Contributes to sustainability learning conversations drawing on everyday life as a site for sustainability learning
Aims to shift the reader's engagement with their own everyday life
Illustrates ideas via blogging, body and place awareness, theory and engagement with key questions
Contributes to sustainability learning conversations by offering everyday life as a site for learning where children are part of the research outside of a school setting Important for women’s studies Vital for creative research methodologies audiences - written as art shifting the reader’s engagement with their own everyday life through sensations and resonance to engage its sustaining nature Examines water in relation to sustainability and waterway-health in a new way, by understanding ourselves as water that is always, already moving through bodies and landscapes Illustrates ideas beyond rational cognitive arguments as art, poetry, prose, blogging and materials encountered through early motherhood along with academic philosophy on art, ecology, environmental education, sustainability, body and place
Autor*in
Sarah Crinall
Themen in »Sustaining Childhood Natures«
Children and Water Childhood and the Everyday Artful Everyday Life Posthumanism Anthropocene Emergence Sustainable Education Developments in Australia Place-based Learning Thinking with Water Arts-based Inquiry New Possibilities of Sustenance Becoming and Unbecoming The Making Process of Everyday Life Everyday Life with Water