Intra-active learning between bodies and matter - transcorporeal pedagogy for a sustainable society (TCP)
Primary and secondary objectives
Primary and secondary objectives of the project TRANSCORPS's primary objective is to develop a transcorporeal pedagogy based on intra-active processes between human bodies and matter. It will be done in three ways: theoretically, methodologically, and empirically. On a theoretical level, knowledge will be created by linking critical posthumanism and new materialist theories with the geological matter as ‘deep time listening’. Which is a way to ‘listen to matter’ by tuning into geological phenomena and scales. Methodologically the project builds on research within post-qualitative perspectives and develops a new form of apparatus based on the haptic sensorium. Empirically the project will develop knowledge with four experimental workshops, where students from the teachers training program will create sound stories. As secondary objectives, this will develop new didactic methods that can be directly useful in teacher education and schools at all levels.
Project summary
We are in the middle of an extensive environmental and climate crisis, also known as the age of the Anthropocene. To meet current and future challenges, a new pedagogy is needed, which is based on a different relationship between humans and nature. TRANSCORP is a project in line with the FN's sustainability goals, Agenda 2030, and the project aims to develop a transcorporeal pedagogy based on a special form of learning that occurs when bodies and matter connect. Learning that puts the human body in focus and in this way contributes an increased understanding of how human beings' actions are interwoven and constantly in interaction with all matter; the body is transcorporeal. This is a pedagogy that has ethical implications for an awareness of the responsibility and cares that humans share with nature. To develop the knowledge between human bodies and matter, TRANSCORP will apply an emerging research interdisciplinary perspective based on critical posthumanism and new materialism. By way of these perspectives, the project will link pedagogical processes by using geological matters. This will do in the form of ‘deep time listening’, which is a way to ‘listen to matter’ by tuning into geological phenomena and scales. The project will arrange four experimental workshops where students from teacher education programs will be participants. The purpose of these workshops is to make sound stories. To do this the participants will use their bodily senses with a special focus on expanding the multisensory listening ability to perceive the surroundings (the natural forces, the spatial and temporal scales). In this way, TRANSCORP will contribute transcorporeal knowledge that can be used to create new didactic methods, which will be directly useful in teacher education and schools at all levels. A transcorporeal pedagogy that can create greater care, responsibility, and presence for matter and nature.
Matter as Creative Agency – Formations in New Materialist Intramodal Pedagogy
Primary and secondary objectives
The overarching aim of this research project is to examine the pedagogical relations between human beings and other matters and phenomena through the perspectives developed within the theoretical strand called new materialism. We are particularly interested in aesthetic aspects and phenomena and will primarily explore learning processes and relations within intramodal pedagogy, in particular Expressive Arts Pedagogy. The project will, therefore, explore theoretical questions about productive philosophical positions concerning intramodal pedagogy to enable new perspectives on the becoming of formation as well as on the aesthetics and ethics of teaching. It will also explore empirical questions about pedagogical and aesthetic processes in praxis and the practical possibilities of forming an intramodal pedagogy that is attentive to the agency of matter in a wider extent.
Project summary
Different societies and cultures have over the years generated different principles or goals for education. A re-thinking and reconfiguration of pedagogy is increasingly important in a time of global challenges and crises concerning climate, environment, health, and politics – challenges that problematize how knowledge emerges and is taught. To succeed with a new pedagogy that can better meet the challenges of our time, we initially need different starting points than those that put man at the anthropocentric centre. To do this, it has become increasingly necessary to draw attention to matter and nature. The key problem for this project is therefore the impact of all sorts of materiality in pedagogical processes. We will explore this theoretically and empirically through a work package centered on theoretical questions (WP1) and another work package centered on empirical questions (WP2). WP1 will explore questions about productive philosophical and theoretical positionings concerning intramodal pedagogy, related to the notion of formation. WP2 will explore pedagogical and aesthetic processes in praxis, and also the possibilities of forming an intramodal pedagogy that is attentive to the agency of matter in a wider extent. The empirical data originate from praxis within Expressive Arts, with a particular focus on the pedagogical processes where the matter is of central importance. Concretely, this is expressed through painting, playing music, writing poetry, and other ways of expression where body and matter are entangled in new and unexpected ways. We intend an enrichment between WP1 and WP2, administrated through WP3. The combination of the work packages will enable us to answer the research questions of the project and contribute to new knowledge. An important element of the project will therefore be to analyze the results from both studies of WP1 and WP2 and relate them to our aim and research problem.
Transcorporeal pedagogy: intra-active learning between bodies and matter (TRANSCORP)
Primary and secondary objectives
Primary and secondary objectives of the project TRANSCORPS's primary objective is to develop a transcorporeal pedagogy based on intra-active processes between human bodies and matter. It will be done in three ways: theoretically, methodologically, and empirically. On a theoretical level, knowledge will be created by linking critical posthumanism and new materialist theories with the geological matter as ‘deep time listening’. Which is a way to ‘listen to matter’ by tuning into geological phenomena and scales. Methodologically the project builds on research within post-qualitative perspectives and develops a new form of apparatus based on the haptic sensorium. Empirically the project will develop knowledge with four experimental workshops, where students from the teachers training program will create sound stories. As secondary objectives, this will develop new didactic methods that can be directly useful in teacher education and schools at all levels. Application number: ES680136 - Project number: 324782 - FORSKER21 Researcher Project Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal Transcorporeal pedagogy: intra-active learning between bodies and matter
Project summary
We are in the middle of an extensive environmental and climate crisis, also known as the age of the Anthropocene. To meet current and future challenges, a new pedagogy is needed, which is based on a different relationship between humans and nature. TRANSCORP is a project in line with the FN's sustainability goals, Agenda 2030, and the project aims to develop a transcorporeal pedagogy based on a special form of learning that occurs when bodies and matter connect. Learning that puts the human body in focus and in this way contributes an increased understanding of how human beings' actions are interwoven and constantly in interaction with all matter; the body is transcorporeal. This is a pedagogy that has ethical implications for an awareness of the responsibility and cares that humans share with nature. To develop the knowledge between human bodies and matter, TRANSCORP will apply an emerging research interdisciplinary perspective based on critical posthumanism and new materialism. By way of these perspectives, the project will link pedagogical processes by using geological matters. This will do in the form of ‘deep time listening’, which is a way to ‘listen to matter’ by tuning into geological phenomena and scales. The project will arrange four experimental workshops where students from teacher education programs will be participants. The purpose of these workshops is to make sound stories. To do this the participants will use their bodily senses with a special focus on expanding the multisensory listening ability to perceive the surroundings (the natural forces, the spatial and temporal scales). In this way, TRANSCORP will contribute transcorporeal knowledge that can be used to create new didactic methods, which will be directly useful in teacher education and schools at all levels. A transcorporeal pedagogy that can create greater care, responsibility, and presence for matter and nature.