NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
ERIC Number: EJ1258281
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0159-6306
EISSN: N/A
'Becoming-with Bees': Generating Affect and Response-Abilities with the Dying Bees in Early Childhood Education
Weldemariam, Kassahun
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v41 n3 p391-406 2020
Engaging young children in sustainability challenges poses a pedagogical dilemma to the field of early childhood education. Using species extinction as an exemplary sustainability challenge, this study explores the pedagogical possibilities to engage young children with the potentially cataclysmic death of the bee. The study is framed within a posthumanist framework and draws ideas from post-qualitative research orientation. The study is empirically anchored to a narrative emerging from a staged theatrical performance of child-bee assemblage that enacts the collective agency of 'bee-ness'. Enabling possibilities of 'becoming-with the bees', the performance lends itself to triggering response-abilities and forming of relationships and thus a concomitant emotional affective response to the death of bees. The article suggests alternative directions for a sustainability pedagogy in early childhood education that represent a shift from loving, caring and preserving nature as an object outside ourselves, towards a perspective of 'becoming-with-nature', which considers humans as part of/entangled with nature.
Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Sweden
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A