Weather Bodies: Experimenting with Dance Improvisation in Environmental Education in the Early Years

Autor/inn/en	Pollitt, Jo; Blaise, Mindy; Rooney, Tonya
Titel	Weather Bodies: Experimenting with Dance Improvisation in Environmental Education in the Early Years
Quelle	In: Environmental Education Research, 27 (2021) 8, S.1141-1151 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pollitt, Jo) ORCID (Blaise, Mindy) ORCID (Rooney, Tonya)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-4622
DOI	10.1080/13504622.2021.1926434
Schlagwörter	Dance; Environmental Education; Teaching Methods; Young Children; Weather; Workshops; Experience + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Tanz; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Frühe Kindheit; Wetter; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Erfahrung
Abstract	This paper reports on insights gained from incorporating dance improvisation into a broader early years environmental education ethnographic research project. Findings are reported from a two-day workshop where a dancer was invited to work with young children to attune to the weather through their bodies. In these workshops, the practice of dance improvisation was used as a deliberate interference to disrupt the disconnected and disembodied ways in which weather is often taught to young children. The paper argues that when children attune with weather through the embodied and relational practice of dance improvisation, this challenges the common practice of learning about weather as a separate phenomenon happening outside the classroom. Dance, as an intervention, helps to de-stabilise binary human-nature relations and reveals how children might come to understand their (human) selves as also weather bodies. New ways to understand humans' entanglements with current weather events are also articulated, offering educators and researchers strategies for considering how the practice of dance improvisation might be integrated into early years education as an innovative approach to environmental learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01