ERIC Number: EJ1233596
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 16
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Entanglements in the Forest: The Orange GoPro Camera and the Children Who Wear Them
Harwood, Debra; Barratt, Jaime; Collier, Diane
International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, v7 n1 p57-72 Fall 2019
In this article, we revisit fragments of data from a three-year study, paying close attention to the entanglements and inseparability of child/plastic/snow/GoPro within children's everyday encounters and narratives in an immersive nature-based program in Canada. We query how these entangled ways of being might help inform environmental and sustainability pedagogical practices, and problematize ideals of human agency and nature-as-pure that are embedded within environmental and sustainability early childhood education. Relying on theories of posthumanism and new materialism (Barad, 2003, 2007; Bennett, 2010; Hultman & Lenz Taguchi, 2010) we examine the bodily, social, and affective intra-actions of nature/child/camera to propose thinking differently about the world and children's relations with the more-than-human world.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Natural Resources, Ecology, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Early Childhood Education, Interaction, Video Technology, Photography
North American Association for Environmnental Education. 1725 DeSales Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-419-0412; Web site: https://naturalstart.org/research
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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