The Tyre-Child in the Early World

Autor/inn/en	Sturm, Sean; Turner, Stephen
Titel	The Tyre-Child in the Early World
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 48 (2016) 7, S.674-683 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2015.1101366
Schlagwörter	Educational Philosophy; Foreign Countries; Art Education; Role; Creativity; Child Development; Land Settlement; Games; Discovery Learning; Teaching Methods; Rural Schools; Play; Technology; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Ausland; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Rollen; Kreativität; Kindesentwicklung; Siedlungsraum; Game; Spiel; Spiele; Entdeckendes Lernen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Technologie; Neuseeland
Abstract	This article considers the "creative education" of influential Aotearoa/New Zealand art educator Elwyn Richardson, which is based on what he calls the "discovery method": the "concentrated study of material from [students'] own surroundings." Through a game that his students play with tyres, we explore the role that tools play in Richardson's classroom and in the imaginary "worlding" of his students' play. By taking the "early world" of the children's development to be a product of the tools through which they describe it, we reveal Richardson's educative process to be essentially technological. His idea of the whole child who emerges through a process of experience and observation--of "emotion recollected in tranquillity," in the well-known phrase of Wordsworth cited by Richardson--conflates the nature of the child and nature of the "natural" world. By this act of "natural settlement" not untypical of settler narratives in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the child's--and, by implication, other settlers'--relation to the world of nature is naturalized. Instead, we would argue that the child's relation to nature is altogether unnatural: it is imprinted by the technological means through which she explores the world and makes it her own--and by which she is made over. The "tyre-child" is no child of nature, but a child of technology (as every settler is a technological settler), for whom creative errors--acts of "mis-taking" like the ones Richardson's children make in playing with tyres--reveal an imaginary capacity at once theoretical and unsettling. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01