Teaching About Space, Place, and the Anthropocene Through Collage, Zine Production, and Arts-Based Geography Methods

• In Event: Arts-Based Educational Research in Teacher Education and Development

Abstract

The world is on fire. We see the potential for art production as an intervention within geography pre-service teacher education. Through autoethnographic inquiry and collage-making, we reflexively revisit an Introduction to Geography Teaching course we co-taught in Spring 2019 and compare these experiences and art practices with the digital version that we co-taught in Spring 2020. We describe our work exploring environmental racism, settler colonialism, slow violence, and the Covid-19 pandemic through arts-based geography methods. We explore the concept of dystopic geography– spaces and places organized and by deep social inequalities – as an important sphere of inquiry and as a mode of accepting educational responsibility through collage, zine-production and arts-based methods with geography pre-service teachers in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Authors

• Casey Megan Burkholder, University of New Brunswick

• Katie Hamill, University of New Brunswick