Children's encounters with urban woodlands, digital technologies and materialities

Jarman, Polly Alexandra (2023). Children's encounters with urban woodlands, digital technologies and materialities. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Abstract

This research considers children’s encounters and learning with ‘natures’, places and digital technologies. It is situated within an urban woodland in Birmingham and is a collaborative project working with two primary schools participating in six-months of walking and filming events, website creation and creative workshops. Drawing on embodied, multi-sensory and socio-material approaches to children’s geographies and interdisciplinary environmental education research, it works with the ‘technique’ of research-creation to explore children’s learning with ‘natures’ and digital platforms such as YouTube. It also examines creative responses to the more-than-human, including water, weather, soils, trees, mud, bricks and minerals. Through inclusion of the GoPro wearable technology as part of the research assemblage, the project draws on notions of the entanglement of the digital and physical in techno-naturecultures (following Haraway’s naturecultures and Latour’s common worlds), arguing for the productive inclusion of the digital within environmental education practices.

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Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.)

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Doctorates > Ph.D.

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