The Materiality of Children’s Imaginative Sense-making in Climate Change Education
In this article, we discuss our investigation of children’s imaginative sense-making and its materiality in climate change education. Drawing on a new materialist approach, our research contributes to knowledge about the material significance in children’s sense-making related to climate change. Dur...
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| description | In this article, we discuss our investigation of children’s imaginative sense-making and its materiality in climate change education. Drawing on a new materialist approach, our research contributes to knowledge about the material significance in children’s sense-making related to climate change. During a project called Riddle of the Spirit in a Finnish primary school, we invited children to explore the concepts of global warming and carbon dioxide through narrative, playful and multimodal activities. Inspired by postqualitative methods, our relational analysis, based on video materials, maps and examines two episodes of children’s small group inquiry. Our findings unfold the material–discursive intra-actions, through which a prop turned into a whale’s head, the Titanic film appeared, and water and carbon dioxide became important to children’s bodies. With these specific events, the study illustrates how various materials conjoined and came to matter in the children’s sense-making of the concepts. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-97b0f8dccd3940f79e20c1bbb0463dfe2025-08-20T03:03:11ZengCambridge University PressAustralian Journal of Environmental Education0814-06262049-775X2024-08-014077078310.1017/aee.2024.51The Materiality of Children’s Imaginative Sense-making in Climate Change EducationChin Chin Wong0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3432-1868Kristiina Kumpulainen1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0721-0348Jenny Renlund2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7378-0875Jenny Byman3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9244-0174Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandDepartment of Language and Literacy Education, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaFaculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandFaculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandIn this article, we discuss our investigation of children’s imaginative sense-making and its materiality in climate change education. Drawing on a new materialist approach, our research contributes to knowledge about the material significance in children’s sense-making related to climate change. During a project called Riddle of the Spirit in a Finnish primary school, we invited children to explore the concepts of global warming and carbon dioxide through narrative, playful and multimodal activities. Inspired by postqualitative methods, our relational analysis, based on video materials, maps and examines two episodes of children’s small group inquiry. Our findings unfold the material–discursive intra-actions, through which a prop turned into a whale’s head, the Titanic film appeared, and water and carbon dioxide became important to children’s bodies. With these specific events, the study illustrates how various materials conjoined and came to matter in the children’s sense-making of the concepts.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S081406262400051X/type/journal_articleChildrenimaginationsense-makingclimate change educationnew materialismpostqualitative methods |
| spellingShingle | Chin Chin Wong Kristiina Kumpulainen Jenny Renlund Jenny Byman The Materiality of Children’s Imaginative Sense-making in Climate Change Education Australian Journal of Environmental Education Children imagination sense-making climate change education new materialism postqualitative methods |
| title | The Materiality of Children’s Imaginative Sense-making in Climate Change Education |
| title_full | The Materiality of Children’s Imaginative Sense-making in Climate Change Education |
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