Overview
- Introduces a theoretical framework for sustainable practices in Art & Craft education
- Shows how interdisciplinary approaches across creative practices can contribute to increased ecological awareness
- Suggests how ecological ethics perspectives can be included in educational research and education
Part of the book series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education (LAAE, volume 33)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
Keywords
- Sustainable teaching practices in the arts
- Craft Education and Sustainability
- More-than-human crafting
- Ecological Ethics
- Becoming ecological
- Environmental awareness in arts education
- Crafting the future
- Ecological education in the arts
- Teaching arts and crafts sustainably
- Sustainable craft pedagogy
- Sustainable craft education
- Craft education for the future
- Post-humanism in education
About this book
The chapters of this book give examples of artists' and crafts people's 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 theauthors' 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.
Chapters "Crafting in Dialogue with the Material Environment" and "Soil Laboratory: Crafting Experiments in an Exhibition Setting" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.se via link.springer.com.
Reviews
The book is likely to appeal to both environmentalists and artists, and to researchers and students of both. Some of the many aspects of nature discussed are shearing sheep and alpaca to card and spin their wool, keeping bees, following animal trails, making pottery from various local soils, exploring an abandoned gravel pit. I highly recommend its use by artists, researchers and teachers of art and craft everywhere.” — Professor Michael Parsons, the University of Illinois, Champaign
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Biljana C. Fredriksen is a professor of Art & Craft education and teacher educator at early childhood teacher programs at University of South-Eastern Norway. During her 25 years long teaching practice, she has conducted a number of research projects in collaboration with her students, young children, and early childhood practitioners. Her most recent studies address embodied, experiential and aesthetic entanglements among more-than-humans. Striving for practice based on an idea of evolutionary aesthetics, Fredriksen’s research deals with ecologically holistic understanding of learning where she poses questions about how esthetic approaches to learning can contribute to increased ecological awareness in students of all ages. She is leading the research group Learning and Teaching for Sustainability (LETS), and she is her university’s representative in the International Partner Network of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Lifestyles. Fredriksen’s most recent publications are based on her co-existence with horses and alpacas, and her own process of becoming ecological through close encounters with more-than-human inhabitants of their rural farm landscapes.
Camilla Groth is a craft practitioner, researcher and teacher with a Master from Royal College of Art, London and a Doctor of Arts degree from Aalto University, Helsinki. She has a background in ceramic crafts and many years’ experience of studying, teaching and working in the field of art, design and craft, in Europe and Japan. Her creative work has been exhibited in Tokyo, London, Paris, New York and Helsinki and has been acquired by the Finnish state art commission. Her research interests concern experiential knowledge and materiality. Groth has studied embodied making and learning in craft practice and in her recent work also in interdisciplinary collaboration. She has developed an interdisciplinary educational platform for material thinking and learning that encourages reflection on the student’s relationship with materials. In her role as associate professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, Groth is leading the research group Embodied Making and Learning, in which the aim is to develop knowledge related to embodied making practices, its role for both individuals and the society and the learning that goes on in these human-material interactions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education Through the Arts
Book Subtitle: Crafting-with the Environment
Editors: Biljana C. Fredriksen, Camilla Groth
Series Title: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4855-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4854-1Published: 26 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4857-2Published: 26 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-4855-8Published: 25 November 2022
Series ISSN: 1573-4528
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0069
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 240
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 82 illustrations in colour
Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Educational Philosophy, Teaching and Teacher Education, Philosophy of Education, Sustainable Development