Walking in Art Education

Nicole Rallis

ISBN 10: 1789389194 / ISBN 13: 9781789389197

Published by Intellect, GB, 2024

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This edited collection highlights ways that arts-educators have taken up important questions around learning with the land through walking practices across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. These walking practices serve as ecopedagogical moments that attune us to human-land and more-than-human relationships, while also moving past Western-centric understandings of land and place. Yet it is also more than this as the book situates this work in a/r/tographic practices taking up walking as one method for engagement.Authors explore walking and a/r/tography in their local contexts. As a result, the book finds that kinship and relationality are significant themes that permeate across a/r/tographic practices focused on ecopedagogy and learning with the land.Unique to this collection is the weaving of groundings that both guide each chapter and emphasize the philosophical commitment of the book. Each grounding is written by scholars or artists with Indigenous backgrounds to Turtle Island (North America) or are scholars who are Indigenous to other countries and places who are now working in Canadian university settings. Many are Elders, cultural stewards, knowledge keepers, and stewards of the land who find themselves immersed in practices that are artful, ecological, and in many instances, involve the practice of walking. Each grounding offers an important lesson or prompt for readers to consider as they engage with the chapters, as well as offering a conceptual re-centring and grounding to the land and the traditional knowledges from the territories on which this collection is being produced and edited.Anishnaabe kwe scholar and artist Anna-Leah King reflects on the teachings of Alfred Manitopeyes, a Saulteaux Elder from Muskcowekwun, Pimosatamowin, who shares that good walking and good talking is more than just a metaphor.Ojibwa scholar and artist Natalie Owl troubles the dictionary definition of anecdotal in relation to walking in the world as an Indigenous woman.Mukwa Musayett, Shelly Johnson, reflects on her relationship to the natural elements, revealing how the winds have helped her learn emotional intimacy- from feelings of grief, frustration, anger, respect, power, love and gratitude. Metis scholar and artist Shannon Leddy invites the reader to a time-travelling walk, tracing the colonial legacies of the land where she now lives in Vancouver, Musqueam Territory, going back to ancient Greece and engaging with Greek mythology, and bringing us to creation itself, as we gestate in our mother's womb.Cathy Rocke invites readers to her favourite walking path where she focuses her attention to the reciprocal relationships found in nature and considers how they can help us better understand healthy human relationships.Gloria Ramirez reflects on her homeland in the Andean Mountains and how her body is intimately tied to the places she has walked. In a poetic grounding story, Shauneen Pete reflects on the traditional teachings shared by her grand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walking in Art Education
• Publisher: Intellect, GB
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789389194
• ISBN 13: 9781789389197
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 16.99W x 1.75H x 24.41D centimeters 16.99 centimeters width by 1.75 centimeters height by 24.41 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

This edited collection highlights ways that arts-educators address learning with the land through walking practices across spatial, temporal, and cultural differences.

In Walking in Art Education, authors explore walking and a/r/tography in their local contexts. As a result, the book finds that kinship and relationality are significant themes that permeate across a/r/tographic practices focused on ecopedagogy and learning with the land. These walking practices serve as ecopedagogical moments that attune us to human-land and more-than-human relationships, while also moving us past Western-centric understandings of land and place. More than this, the book situates this work in a/r/tographic practices taking up walking as one method for engagement.
 

About the Authors

Nicole Rallis is a PhD candidate in curriculum studies and art education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include a/r/tography, poetic inquiry, embodied learning and land-based pedagogies.

Ken Morimoto is a PhD candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. With interests in art-based educational research and philosophy of education, his research entails the development and exploration of conceptual landscapes as a way of study.

Michele Sorensen, a woman of Mi’kmaq ancestry (Miawpukek First Nation), is assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Regina, Canada.

Valerie Triggs is professor of arts education and visual arts education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina, Canada.

Rita L. Irwin is a settler of European ancestry living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nations. She is also a Distinguished University Scholar, professor of art education and curriculum studies, former associate dean of teacher education, and head of the Department of Curriculum Studies, at the University of British Columbia, Canada.