Relational Encounters with Folk School Pedagogies

Craft as Creative Inquiry
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-50335-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

This book explores folk school pedagogies through craft as creative inquiry. Using a study at and inspired by The Clearing Folk School, a continuing education institution located at the northern tip of the Door County Peninsula, Wisconsin, United States, it explores the crafting of teaching practices from learners, educators, researchers, artists, animals, land, plants, and sky. The author shows how such practices function as an antidote to contemporary anthropocentric, environmental, and political crises. Contributing to conversations in posthuman ethics, it engages folk school pedagogies between humans and more-than-humans through thinking, writing, folding, interviewing, collaging, and journaling. Exploring craft as creative inquiry that works against conventional methods of and assumptions about research, it ultimately investigates the utility of folk school teaching practices that highlight relations between beings and things as kin. As such, it will appeal to scholars, researchers, faculty, and postgraduate students working across research methods, arts education, and educational philosophy by taking seriously relational pedagogies and perspectives through craft as creative inquiry.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Amber

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Kunst, Musik, Theater (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Body Matter: Framework  1. Human Created (In)justice and Rethinking the Human  2. Crafting with Folk School Pedagogies  3. Thought Partners, Turns, and Time  Part 2: Body Matter: Application  4. Folding Literature: Theory, Inquiry, Pedagogy, and Folk Schools  5. Interviewing Teachers: A Watercolorist and Birder/Naturalist  6. Collaging Archives: A Library, Arboretum, and Folk School  7. Journaling Nature: A Class at The Clearing  8. Folk School Informed Futures

Über Autor(innen)

Amber Ward is Associate Professor of Art Education at Florida State University, USA. Her research uses creative approaches of inquiry to explore the material practices of craft, feminism, and sustainability and mend the world around us.