ERIC Number: EJ1454071
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Dec
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-1871-1502
EISSN: EISSN-1871-1510
Becoming-With the Bog Born: Emotional Collectives in Ecological Fieldwork
Kristin Persson; Maria Andrée; Cecilia Caiman
Cultural Studies of Science Education, v19 n4 p675-696 2024
Fieldwork in ecology education does things. By employing Donna Haraway's concept "becoming-with companion species" and Cathrine Hasse's "emotional collectives" to explore fieldwork practice on a bog in Sweden, a piece of the doings will be told. The aim of this study is to explore how ecology fieldwork affords emotional engagement and facilitates growth of ecological literacy in the emotional collectives of students, teachers and nonhumans to become-with each other. The study is based on an overnight field trip with upper-secondary students experiencing black grouse lekking and the ecology of a bog. The empirical material consists of video and audio recordings. In the study, becoming-with is operationalised through the notion of emotional collectives. The result shows three orientations of becoming-with: "mimetic," "anthropomorphic" and "fact oriented." Overall, this is a story of fieldwork as a practice of producing companion species; how becoming-with companion species works in practice, how companion species come to matter as emergent ecological literacy.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Forestry, Leadership Training, Student Centered Learning, Ecology, Biodiversity, Physical Environment, Field Trips, Outdoor Education, Field Instruction, Learner Controlled Instruction, Psychological Patterns, Learner Engagement, Field Studies, Animals
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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