Entangled with wool and places through the agencies of a-r-t-ography in teaching practice

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7577/ar.5487

Keywords:

a-r-t-ography, process philosophy, co-creative knowledge processes, art and craft, wool

Abstract

This article is written based on a teaching situation together with a group of students from early childhood teacher education and a large amount of discarded wool from Norwegian wild sheep. With a-r-t-ography as research methodology and pedagogical strategy, we explore how we can co-create through research, teaching and artistic making with wool, felting, students and places, and in what ways a-r-t-tography contributes to expanding our thinking about teaching when we move the workshop out into the open air. The study is rooted in process philosophy, posthuman perspectives and art-based research.

Photo: Ann-Hege Lorvik Waterhouse, Kari Carlsen and Trude Iversen

Author Biographies

Ann-Hege Lorvik Waterhouse, University of South-Eastern Norway

Ann-Hege Lorvik Waterhouse  is professor at Department of Visual and Performing Arts Education at University of South-Eastern Norway and visiting professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Kari Carlsen, University of South-Eastern Norway

Kari Carlsen is professor at Department of Visual and Performing Arts Education, University of South-Eastern Norway.

Trude Iversen, University of Stavanger

Trude Iversen  is PhD-candidate at Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger.

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Published

2024-12-16

How to Cite

Waterhouse, A.-H. L., Carlsen, K., & Iversen, T. (2024). Entangled with wool and places through the agencies of a-r-t-ography in teaching practice. Nordic Journal of Art & Research, 13(3), 1–32. https://doi.org/10.7577/ar.5487