Becoming-with bees
Generating Affect and Response-Abilities With the Dying Bees in Early Childhood Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7750841 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kassahun Weldemariam (0000-0002-7017-0246, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 391-406 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2019.1607402 |
| OpenAlex | W2941891578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 25 |
Engaging young children in sustainability challenges poses a pedagogical dilemma to the field of early childhood education. Using species extinction as an exemplary sustainability challenge, this study explores the pedagogical possibilities to engage young children with the potentially cataclysmic death of the bee. The study is framed within a posthumanist framework and draws ideas from post-qualitative research orientation. The study is empirically anchored to a narrative emerging from a staged theatrical performance of child-bee assemblage that enacts the collective agency of ‘bee-ness’. Enabling possibilities of ‘becoming-with the bees’, the performance lends itself to triggering response-abilities and forming of relationships and thus a concomitant emotional affective response to the death of bees. The article suggests alternative directions for a sustainability pedagogy in early childhood education that represent a shift from loving, caring and preserving nature as an object outside ourselves, towards a perspective of ‘becoming-with-nature’, which considers humans as part of/entangled with nature
Developmental psychology · Dilemma · Early childhood · Early childhood education · Epistemology · Narrative · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Animal and Plant Science Education · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Communication · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
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| Citations per year | 3,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |