{"id":700,"date":"2017-11-20T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T12:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estetiskefagene.wordpress.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2017-11-20T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T12:40:23","slug":"early-childhood-the-senses-and-ecological-sustainability-the-senses-and-emotions-as-essential-for-survival-av-biljana-c-fredriksen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estetiskefag.usn.no\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Early Childhood, the Senses and Ecological Sustainability: The Senses and Emotions as Essential for Survival. Av Biljana C. Fredriksen"},"content":{"rendered":"

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Education building
\nOctober 3rd<\/sup> from 2:00 – 3:30, room 192
\nAssociate Professor Biljana C. Fredriksen
\nUniversity College of Southeast Norway
\nFaculty of Humanities, Sports and Education
\nDepartment of Visual and Performing Arts Education
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\nEarly Childhood, the Senses and Ecological Sustainability: The Senses and Emotions as Essential for Survival<\/strong>
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\nAbstract:
\nIn an evolutionary perspective, exquisite senses, emotional sensibilities and ability to identify emotions in others are essential for survival of the species. Ongoing attention and attunement to immediate surroundings are necessary in order to make appropriate choices of action. That is how we, more-than-humans, make sense of our world contextually through our individual senses, and yet collectively. Our personal understanding is intertwined with our cultural understanding, as much as our human nature is rooted in genetic structures we share with other animals.
\nSenses and emotions are essential capacities for learning, beyond school\u2019s division in subjects, beyond schooling. Early childhood education has a specific role in nourishing young peoples embodied capacities so that they can remain sensitive, engaged and caring for local and global environments thorough their lives. Making sense of the world through experiences comes before learning through verbal language, but is often assumed as insignificant, ineffective or not valuable when compared to theoretical knowledge.
\nThis lecture shows examples from a case of inter-species ethnography and makes visible how learning through holistic experiences always is<\/em> present in more-than-humans, but through established dualisms and power divisions in traditional schooling, gradually gets suppressed and ignored. With references to ecological philosophy of Norwegian philosopher Arne N\u00e6ss and recent influence of post-humanism, this lecture provides arguments that can justify essential importance of the experiential and aesthetic dimensions in education in an interdisciplinary perspective.
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\nBiljana C. Fredriksen, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at University College of Southeast Norway where she has been teaching Art & Craft at teacher education programs for the last 20 years.\u00a0 She has conducted number of studies concerning young children\u2019s and teacher students\u2019 experiential learning through creative work with three-dimensional materials. Her latest projects deals with eco-creativity, evolutionary aesthetics, interspecies pedagogy and ecological responsibility developed through explorations of natural materials.
\nBiljana C. Fredriksen<\/a>
\nBiljana.C.Fredriksen@usn.no<\/a>
\nLink til universitetet:
\nhttp:\/\/illinois.edu\/about\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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