Reuse Invent Create
Kirstine Riis has a background as a textile craftsman and is a teacher and researcher at USN and part of the Embodied Learning and Making and LETS Research Groups. Kirstine is interested in how knowledge understood as a living phenomenon can be linked to craftsmanship, empathy, ecology and sustainability. Kirstine has i.a. explored the creative workshop as an arena for working with both analog and digital technology in arts and crafts with creative community and sustainability as central focal points. Ragnhild Näumann has a background as a teacher in arts and crafts at Holviga ungdomsskole and Grimstad kulturskole and in 2016 completed the master's thesis Upcycling with recycled textiles. Sustainable didactics in arts and crafts, which was the start of work on the book. Helene Illeris has a background as an artist, teacher and researcher. Helene is concerned with performative and art-based forms of learning and with sustainability as an approach to the arts and has written articles on Art Education for Sustainable Development (AESD) and on ecological awareness in arts and crafts.
Sustainability didactics in arts and crafts - Reuse, invent, create.
This is the first Norwegian book that deals with sustainability didactics and sustainable development in the subject arts and crafts. Based on new research, the authors want to change the way we think about learning, knowledge and education so that sustainability is a natural part of all work in the arts and crafts. Through didactic models, the authors show, among other things, how sustainability didactics can be integrated into teaching. With their own projects, they present further teaching with children and young people, where creativity and the urge to explore are emphasised, at the same time as they focus on minimising the environmental impact of the various projects. The book is aimed at students, teachers and researchers who are concerned with a pedagogical approach through sustainable thinking and the use of sustainable materials. The book consists of two parts. Part I presents the book's approach to learning, knowledge and education by establishing the concept of BKH (Sustainability Didactics in Arts and Crafts). In addition, the authors review the curricula in arts and crafts with a special focus on the interdisciplinary theme of sustainable development. Part II deals with a number of different recycled materials and looks at how these can be used as active "partners" in arts and crafts.