Learning with the city via enchantment

Photo-Walks as Creative Encounters

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ID2929697
AuthorsNoora Pyyry (0000-0002-9689-3901, University of Helsinki, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume37
Issue1
Pages102-115
Publication date2016-01-02
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2014.929841
OpenAlexW2013347040
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited26

In this paper, I approach learning as a process of rethinking the world that happens via the surprising experience of “enchantment.” This process becomes possible by dwelling, that is, by forming meaningful multisensory engagements with one's surroundings. I present my arguments by discussing photo-walks that students conducted in Helsinki as part of a geography-learning project. During the photo-walks, learning happened with the spaces of hanging out. In contrast to common understandings of learning, this learning with the city is non-instrumental: it is making the familiar unfamiliar by paying attention to the particular in everyday spaces. Methods such as photography are understood as creative encounters that can help in re-cognizing the world and fostering one's ethical sensitivity

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Everyday life · Photography · Process (computing · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy

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