Lines in the snow; minor paths in the search for early childhood education for planatary wellbeing
This paper explores what place means for early childhood education at a time of global environmental precarity. We draw on fieldwork in Arctic Norway, where kindergarten children spend time with snow for more than half of the year. Children’s movement attunes to the nuances and diversity of the snow...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/20474 2023-05-15T15:11:04+02:00 Lines in the snow; minor paths in the search for early childhood education for planatary wellbeing Myrstad, Anne Hackett, Abigail Bartnæs, Pernille Elisabeth 2020-12-28 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20474 https://doi.org/10.1177/2043610620983590 eng eng SAGE Publications Global Studies of Childhood Norges forskningsråd: 275575 Myrstad, Hackett, Bartnæs. Lines in the snow; minor paths in the search for early childhood education for planatary wellbeing. Global Studies of Childhood. 2020:1-13 FRIDAID 1864099 doi:10.1177/2043610620983590 2043-6106 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20474 openAccess Copyright 2020 The Author(s) VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Pedagogiske fag: 280 VDP::Social sciences: 200::Education: 280 Barnehagepedagogikk / Early Childhood Education Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2020 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1177/2043610620983590 2021-06-25T17:58:00Z This paper explores what place means for early childhood education at a time of global environmental precarity. We draw on fieldwork in Arctic Norway, where kindergarten children spend time with snow for more than half of the year. Children’s movement attunes to the nuances and diversity of the snow, as seasons, temperature, light, wind and weather change the consistency of snow and the possibilities for what can occur. The paper presents data of children walking in deep snow during an ice-fishing trip, a practice known as ‘grynne’, asking what we can learn both about the moment-by-moment attunement between child, snow and place necessary to grynne, and the paths of movement left behind in the snow afterwards. We draw on Manning’s work in order to trace the major and minor gestures running through grynne, as an analytic starting point for educators considering the role early years pedagogy might play in planetary sustainability.Thinking beyond the notion of humans as masterfully in control of environment, Ingold’s notion of correspondence offers a counter, advocating for a ‘lifetime of intimate gestural and sensory engagement’ as a way of learning to attune more deeply to place and take seriously the way in which place and humans mutually shape each other. In a place where seasonal temporality matters, in extreme ways that change how children’s bodies can move, we consider what children’s entanglement with snow can teach us, educators as well as researchers, about education for sustainability. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Norway Global Studies of Childhood 204361062098359 |
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This paper explores what place means for early childhood education at a time of global environmental precarity. We draw on fieldwork in Arctic Norway, where kindergarten children spend time with snow for more than half of the year. Children’s movement attunes to the nuances and diversity of the snow, as seasons, temperature, light, wind and weather change the consistency of snow and the possibilities for what can occur. The paper presents data of children walking in deep snow during an ice-fishing trip, a practice known as ‘grynne’, asking what we can learn both about the moment-by-moment attunement between child, snow and place necessary to grynne, and the paths of movement left behind in the snow afterwards. We draw on Manning’s work in order to trace the major and minor gestures running through grynne, as an analytic starting point for educators considering the role early years pedagogy might play in planetary sustainability.Thinking beyond the notion of humans as masterfully in control of environment, Ingold’s notion of correspondence offers a counter, advocating for a ‘lifetime of intimate gestural and sensory engagement’ as a way of learning to attune more deeply to place and take seriously the way in which place and humans mutually shape each other. In a place where seasonal temporality matters, in extreme ways that change how children’s bodies can move, we consider what children’s entanglement with snow can teach us, educators as well as researchers, about education for sustainability. |
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