ERIC Number: EJ1441322
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Apr
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0814-0626
EISSN: EISSN-2049-775X
Lingering with Multispecies Kin: Re-Turning to Encounters between Children, Invertebrates and Amphibians
Australian Journal of Environmental Education, v40 n2 p157-171 2024
Based on an ethnographic study in a Finnish primary school, we explored lingering as both a pedagogical approach and a methodological concept for multispecies education research and practice. Through this conceptual thinking, we "re-turned" to the multiplicities that unfolded from noticing rhythms, enterings and different lifeworlds to show how children's lingering encounters developed into speculative inquiries about how invertebrates and amphibians generate polyphonous affects and temporalities. In our study, children's "attuning-with" clay, waste materials, photographs, and stop-motion animation opened up the unfamiliar worlds and temporalities of invertebrates and amphibians, involving active silences, slow rhythms, and awkward becomings. Overall, the study highlights that children's attuning-with the uncertainties of today's socioecological world create new avenues for thinking about multispecies relationalities.
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Attention Span, Teaching Methods, Science Education, Biology, Observation, Animals, Children, Multimedia Materials, Photography, Animation, Nonverbal Communication, Environmental Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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