Understanding Children-Nature Relationships Through Embodied Research Methods: Monsoon-Relationalities of Summer-Camp Participants

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Abstract

This research study explored children-nature relationships in a week-long summer camp that was hosted at a Children's Museum in the South-West during the summer of 2023. Our research draws from scholarship in the environmental humanities with a focus on posthumanism, post-qualitative inquiry, environmental education, and ecofeminism. We focus on the theme of rain/monsoon and children’s emerging relationships with weather and show how there is a hyperseparation between children and nature and how embodied activities can help us engage with the more-than-human.

Authors

• Marina Basu, Arizona State University

• Ann W. Nielsen, NIET: National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

• Iveta Silova, Arizona State University