Care-full, convivial, curious: Weaving Canadian artists’ conceptions of art as a form of transformative environmental education

IF 1.7 4区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2021-08-09 DOI:10.1080/00958964.2021.1929801

Jennifer Yakamovich, T. Wright

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Abstract Addressing global climate change beyond short-term fixes requires wider cultural change. Artists, as cultural workers, play a valuable role in attending to questions of social and ecological justice. While there is growing artistic engagement with environmental research, there are few studies which critically explore the confluence of contemporary art, sustainability, and informal education within Canada. Using a framework of poetics (poiesis), this study explores how an environmentally engaged arts practice is a form of transformative environmental education. We interviewed 24 current Canada-based visual, installation, and performance artists to understand how they conceptualize their role in fostering socioecological transformations. We used an inductive thematic coding scheme to analyze transcripts and compared emergent themes to current ecocritical literature. Results reveal a framework of artist-researcher-teacher as facilitator of conviviality, curiosity, and care, showing the agency of artists and a need for poetics in environmental work, research, and education.

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关心、欢乐、好奇：编织加拿大艺术家的艺术概念，将其作为一种变革性的环境教育形式

解决全球气候变化问题需要更广泛的文化变革。艺术家作为文化工作者，在解决社会和生态正义问题方面发挥着宝贵的作用。虽然越来越多的艺术参与环境研究，但很少有研究批判性地探索加拿大当代艺术，可持续性和非正式教育的融合。本研究运用诗学(poiesis)的框架，探讨了环境参与的艺术实践如何成为一种变革性环境教育的形式。我们采访了24位目前居住在加拿大的视觉、装置和行为艺术家，以了解他们如何概念化他们在促进社会生态转型中的作用。我们使用归纳主题编码方案来分析文本，并将新兴主题与当前生态批评文献进行比较。结果揭示了艺术家-研究人员-教师作为欢乐、好奇心和关怀的促进者的框架，显示了艺术家的能动性和环境工作、研究和教育对诗学的需求。

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Journal of Environmental Education Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Any educator in the environmental field will find The Journal of Environmental Education indispensable. Based on recent research in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, the journal details how best to present environmental issues and how to evaluate programs already in place for primary through university level and adult students. University researchers, park and recreation administrators, and teachers from the United States and abroad provide new analyses of the instruction, theory, methods, and practices of environmental communication and education in peer-reviewed articles. Reviews of the most recent books, textbooks, videos, and other educational materials by experts in the field appear regularly.