Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education Through the Arts: Crafting-with the Environment

This book explores diverse crafting processes that bring humans, more-than-humans, and the environment closer together, addressing personal and educational developments towards ecological awareness. It discusses the human-material relationship, introduces posthuman theoretical entry points, and reflects on the implementation of such perspectives in education. Practical examples of crafting with the environment, material practices, and reflections provide insights into leveling out human and material hierarchies. The book is of interest to professional creative practitioners, art and craft educators, art teacher educators, or researchers in the field of creative practices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 26 November 2022
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This book explores diverse crafting processes that foster connections between humans, more-than-humans, and the environment, promoting ecological awareness. It examines the human-material relationship, introduces posthuman theoretical perspectives, and reflects on their implementation in education. Through practical examples of crafting with the environment, material practices, and reflections, the book offers insights into leveling human and material hierarchies. The chapters showcase artists' and craftspeople's processes of thinking through materials and with materials, as well as their reflections on how more-than-humans craft and how the environment and landscapes transform over time. These case examples are based on the authors' own experiences with phenomena they seek 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 the potential to inspire rethinking of present educational practices, ignite critical reflections about materials and more-than-humans, and motivate transformations toward more ecologically sustainable ways of life. Chapters 1, 7, and 14 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Weight: 559g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811948541
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022