Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories (CGPPMT)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- 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
About this book
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 possibilitiesfor sustaining childhood natures – for what is becoming, and unbecoming – emerge here in the making processes of an academic, everyday life in early motherhood.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sarah writes in the spaces of early motherhood from the couch, at the dining table, and in bed with everyday momentary and bodily encounters. As she writes, the words change shape with the landscape surrounds and homely wares.
As a marine ecologist and educator, Sarah began using art to make room for people and water to be together in a more embodied way. A young girl once asked: We know you love waterways, but why should we? From there Sarah found herself pursuing a doctorate on the relationship between artists and waterways.
Sarah completed her doctorate, Blogging Art and Sustenance: Artful everyday life (making) with water, in 2017. This dissertation received an AERA award (Division D Outstanding Dissertation Award). This thesis is the basis for this monograph – Sustaining childhood natures: The art of becoming with water.
In the past five years, Sarah has enjoyed making and sustaining everyday with other various lives on Phillip Island. With co-mothers, Sarah formed a playgroup (the Phillip Island Family playgroup); and helped with the inception of a new primary school, Phillip Island Village School, Ventnor as a co-founding board member. Now Edith, Vivi and Sarah are energised and nourished in weekly ‘Barn School’ forays. Here local families, children and parents can gather, explore and be together in shared experiences around Phillip Island in sync with the season. Sarah continues to write passionately on the matter(s) of motherhood and bodyplace lives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustaining Childhood Natures
Book Subtitle: The Art of Becoming with Water
Authors: Sarah Crinall
Series Title: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3007-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3006-3Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3007-0Published: 11 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2523-3408
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3416
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 245
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 161 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy, Creativity and Arts Education, Infancy and Early Childhood Development