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Description
In this research project children create a space with their own recycled clothes, within the school forest. Experiential activity and creative play in nature, kinesthetic play, the concept of sustainability, Deep Ecology and ecosomatics are combined in one activity and pave the way to multiple interdisciplinary learning fields. Pedagogy shifts from the active learner to the universal communication of the child with what surrounds it, through a relational-centered-experiential learning and the emotional engagement with its material and physical environment. What is missing in contemporary learning is the development of children relationships with the emotional, social and environmental world and most importantly with themselves. Community build-up is deemed essential in this research for collaboration, active engagement and participatory planning in an everyday learning context as well. Thus, children experiences are formed in a playful, multimodal, open and interactive field with the community.
CV
Katerina Kokkinaki is a graduate of the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2008) with a degree in painting and an Integrated Master’s degree from the same school. She is a graduate of the Interior Architecture Department of the School of Graphic Arts and Artistic Studies of West Attica University (2000). She is a PhD candidate from 2021 at the University of West Attica. She has taught art in primary and secondary schools for the last fifteen years, such as the Experimental Primary Schools of Piraeus and the Art School of Keratsini. As a visual artist, she has held three solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions, international art fairs, and experimental festivals.
