Art Teachers’ Education for Environmental Awareness. What is Hidden in Nature that we have never Seen or Heard? ...

• Main Author: Jónsdóttir, Ásthildur B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2017
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13135/2384-8677/2048; http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions/article/view/2048

It is argued here that teacher education needs to make a fundamental shift in the types of knowledge and experience that count as valuable for future teachers. The article reflects on some aspects of a weeklong project involving student teachers and 5th grade students that has taken place in the Reykjavik Botanical Garden for the past four years called What is hidden in nature that we have never seen or heard? The project has been a part of the Children’s Cultural Festival. This is a collective project where more than seventy pupils from a neighbourhood school work under the direction of a group of student teachers from the Iceland Academy of the Arts (IAA). The project focuses on the transformative power of education for sustainability (EfS), and participatory pedagogy including critical place-based learning and tacit knowledge. The settings at the Botanical Garden were developed as a part of a pedagogical course taught by the author of this article, aiming to develop the student teachers’ self-efficacy and ... : Visions for Sustainability, No 7 (2017) ...