Sustaining Childhood Natures

£109.50

Sustaining Childhood Natures

The Art of Becoming with Water

The Arts Child, developmental and lifespan psychology Philosophy and theory of education Early childhood care and education Teaching of a specific subject

Author: Sarah Crinall

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Collection: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories

Language: English

Published by: Springer

Published on: 11th January 2019

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 33 Mb

ISBN: 9789811330070


Sustainability Learning with Children, Art, and Water

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?

The Philosophy and Artistic Flow

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.

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