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VI BLIVER SKOV BLIVER VI: Økologisk opmærksomhed i kunst og håndverk gennem kunstnerisk praksis i naturen

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This chapter shows possible ways to work pedagogically with the transdisciplinary theme “sustainable development” in Norwegian arts and crafts education. Through aesthetic and sensory explorations of and with visual, material and social phenomena in nature, the human-centered world view of the curriculum is challenged by a more eco-centered approach. The empirical example guiding the text is taken from the author’s participation in Grow Forest!, a performance workshop for children led by the Danish performance artist Marika Seidler at INGRID – Deep Forest Art Camp in Denmark in July 2019. The aim of the camp was to let the children experience nature as a place for artistic experimentation with the possibility of encountering new and exciting challenges. Theoretically the chapter focuses on the concept of ecological awareness as developed by the British ecologist and literature scholar Timothy Morton (2016, 2018). Through analyses of narratives from Grow Forest! The chapter develops three eco-centered pedagogical approaches to arts and crafts education: ecological intimacy, ecological solidarity, and ecological magic. When adopted by teachers, the hope of the author is that these approaches will be able to enhance the ecological awareness of the pupils and in a longer perspective to give them a bodily anchored experience of nature as more than just a resource for human consumption.