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Thinking with fire, water and sun - material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education
Dalarna University, School of Teacher Education, Educational Work.ORCID iD: 0009-0008-8695-3764
Gothenburg University, Sweden.
2024 (English)In: Environmental Education Research, ISSN 1350-4622, E-ISSN 1469-5871, Vol. 30, no 7, p. 1115-1128Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this paper, we empirically demonstrate emerging material-discursive entanglements of different bodies in Swedish outdoor education, and thereby provoke openings for questioning some aspects of the conceptualization of a nature/culture divide. Outdoor and environmental education have been criticized for upholding this divide by not paying attention to the power structures through which bodies become sedimented as either human or nature. By discussing entanglements, and how educators might attend to them as a pedagogical tool, our paper responds to this line of thinking. Vital materialism and agential realism were put to work in a post-qualitative study at a Swedish folk high school. Through engagement with a group of outdoor students, empirical material was created and examples of material-discursive entanglements analyzed. We conclude that outdoor educators can create possibilities for attending to the entanglements of different bodies, thereby making possible a learning with them. This may open alternative ways to conduct outdoor education that challenge the conceptualization of a nature/culture divide.

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Routledge, 2024. Vol. 30, no 7, p. 1115-1128
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Outdoor education, material-discursive entanglements, nature/culture divide, vital materialism, agential realism
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-48426DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2024.2326455ISI: 001204582400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85190976304OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-48426DiVA, id: diva2:1856177
Available from: 2024-05-06 Created: 2024-05-06 Last updated: 2025-01-09Bibliographically approved

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