Human-material relationships in environmental and sustainability education–an empirical study of a school embroidery project

H Hofverberg; David Kronlid

doi:10.1080/13504622.2017.1358805

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Human-material relationships in environmental and sustainability education–an empirical study of a school embroidery project

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Human-material relationships in environmental and sustainability education–an empirical study of a school embroidery project

H Hofverberg and David Kronlid

Environmental Education Research, Vol.24(7), pp.955-968

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2017.1358805

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Environmental Science and Management

Curriculum and Pedagogy

Specialist Studies in Education

Environmental and sustainability education

human-material relationship

practice of correspondence

learning crafting

embroidery thread

In recent discussions about the widening and opening up of anthropocentric perspectives in environmental and sustainability education (ESE) research, a recurrent issue has been what reasonably could be a subject of inquiry and an agent of knowledge. This article aims to showcase an empirical study of the relevance of human-material relationships in crafting learning processes by following an embroidery project with year 8 students in the Swedish craft subject of educational sloyd. How the human-material correspondence unfolds in the crafting learning process is analysed with the aid of Ingold's practice of correspondence and Sørensen's notion of participation, performance and imagination. Rather than assuming that materials contribute to certain environmental and sustainability aims, the analysis empirically demonstrates how the human-material correspondence unfolds. The analysis identifies three human-material relationships: attuning, troubling and tracing correspondence. Drawing on the findings, the humanmaterial relevance for environmental and sustainability education and research is further discussed.

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Title: Human-material relationships in environmental and sustainability education–an empirical study of a school embroidery project
Authors: H Hofverberg (Author) - Uppsala University, Sweden
David Kronlid (Author) - Uppsala University, Sweden
Publication details: Environmental Education Research, Vol.24(7), pp.955-968
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2017.1358805
ISSN: 1350-4622
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451350402621
Output Type: Journal article