Lingering with Multispecies Kin: Re-Turning to Encounters between Children, Invertebrates and Amphibians
Based on an ethnographic study in a Finnish primary school, we explored lingering as both a pedagogical approach and a methodological concept for multispecies education research and practice. Through this conceptual thinking, we “re-turned” to the multiplicities that unfolded from noticing rhythms,...
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| description | Based on an ethnographic study in a Finnish primary school, we explored lingering as both a pedagogical approach and a methodological concept for multispecies education research and practice. Through this conceptual thinking, we “re-turned” to the multiplicities that unfolded from noticing rhythms, enterings and different lifeworlds to show how children’s lingering encounters developed into speculative inquiries about how invertebrates and amphibians generate polyphonous affects and temporalities. In our study, children’s “attuning-with” clay, waste materials, photographs, and stop-motion animation opened up the unfamiliar worlds and temporalities of invertebrates and amphibians, involving active silences, slow rhythms, and awkward becomings. Overall, the study highlights that children’s attuning-with the uncertainties of today’s socioecological world create new avenues for thinking about multispecies relationalities. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-feb7faa3d8184dfdbcb4d83ae857b8b82025-08-20T03:40:44ZengCambridge University PressAustralian Journal of Environmental Education0814-06262049-775X2024-04-014015717110.1017/aee.2024.20Lingering with Multispecies Kin: Re-Turning to Encounters between Children, Invertebrates and AmphibiansJenny Byman0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9244-0174Kristiina Kumpulainen1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0721-0348Jenny Renlund2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7378-0875Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, FinlandDepartment of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaFaculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, FinlandBased on an ethnographic study in a Finnish primary school, we explored lingering as both a pedagogical approach and a methodological concept for multispecies education research and practice. Through this conceptual thinking, we “re-turned” to the multiplicities that unfolded from noticing rhythms, enterings and different lifeworlds to show how children’s lingering encounters developed into speculative inquiries about how invertebrates and amphibians generate polyphonous affects and temporalities. In our study, children’s “attuning-with” clay, waste materials, photographs, and stop-motion animation opened up the unfamiliar worlds and temporalities of invertebrates and amphibians, involving active silences, slow rhythms, and awkward becomings. Overall, the study highlights that children’s attuning-with the uncertainties of today’s socioecological world create new avenues for thinking about multispecies relationalities.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S081406262400020X/type/journal_articleAffectchildreneducationlingering encountersmultispecies relationalitiesrhythms |
| spellingShingle | Jenny Byman Kristiina Kumpulainen Jenny Renlund Lingering with Multispecies Kin: Re-Turning to Encounters between Children, Invertebrates and Amphibians Australian Journal of Environmental Education Affect children education lingering encounters multispecies relationalities rhythms |
| title | Lingering with Multispecies Kin: Re-Turning to Encounters between Children, Invertebrates and Amphibians |
| title_full | Lingering with Multispecies Kin: Re-Turning to Encounters between Children, Invertebrates and Amphibians |
| title_fullStr | Lingering with Multispecies Kin: Re-Turning to Encounters between Children, Invertebrates and Amphibians |
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| title_short | Lingering with Multispecies Kin: Re-Turning to Encounters between Children, Invertebrates and Amphibians |
| title_sort | lingering with multispecies kin re turning to encounters between children invertebrates and amphibians |
| topic | Affect children education lingering encounters multispecies relationalities rhythms |
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