Ecoportraiture: The Art of Research When Nature Matters
Sean Blenkinsop, "Ecoportraiture: The Art of Research When Nature Matters "
English | ISBN: 143319256X | 2022 | 204 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 12 MB
English | ISBN: 143319256X | 2022 | 204 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 12 MB
What changes in education, when it is not just humans whose teaching is sought and acknowledged? And how can educational research be accountable to the voices and agency of such more-than-human teachers, interlocutors, and kin? These have become pressing questions in an era of soaring interest in forest and nature schools, place- and land-based education. Ecoportraiture offers theoretical and practical guidance into an emerging methodology with deep roots in the anti-racist, emancipatory research tradition of portraiture initiated by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffman Davis. Bracketed by the editors’ wide-ranging introductory essay and a closing critical conversation, five inspiring chapters take readers deep into the thinking and action that characterize ecoportraiture research. Ideal for researchers at all levels who want to explore more deeply how human learning is shaped and informed by the more-than-human, this book also invites a wider audience into the artful practice of close listening to the many voices of the natural world.
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