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Volume 21, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 1743-5234
  • E-ISSN: 2040-090X

Abstract

examines children’s aesthetic processes by working with the surrounding landscape of a kindergarten in Gaza through land crafting with plant-dyed textiles. It examines how land crafting with young children and extracting colours from their surroundings can be a pedagogical resource. The study is placed within the new materialist paradigm and focuses on process-based and material-collective practices that includes the children’s encounters with materials, experiences and knowledge close to their everyday lives. Drawing upon creative practice ethnography, the data in the article comprise written notes by the authors, and photos, videos and drawings from the project. These are discussed alongside extracts from the Palestinian . The data are anonymous, and the parents and staff have given their informed consent. We consider that the project opens space for experiences of (‘neighbouring’) through land crafting with a response-able and aesthetic approach to learning with the local surroundings. shows possibilities for relational, aesthetical learning processes where can be part of a kindergarten’s practice and can be relevant in educational situations beyond Palestine.

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Colours of Gaza: Learning through the neighbourhood environment with young children
International Journal of Education Through Art 21, 283 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1386/eta_00199_1
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Keyword(s): aesthetic processes; collaboration; kindergarten; land crafting; new materialism; plant dye

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