Short Abstract:

This panel is focused on how cultural perspectives can contribute to rewriting research on education and learning within school and higher education, as well as in museums, archives and organizations and includes papers that discuss practices, relations, materiality and life in relation to this.

Long Abstract:

This panel aims to start from the ethnological, anthropological and folkloristic focus on cultural perspectives, to retract and rewrite how education and learning have often been regarded and handled in research. We thus view the idea of “unwriting” as a way to recognize how ethnologist/anthropologist/folklorist approaches can contribute to research on education and learning. We do this by acknowledging that education and learning takes place in many arenas, not just pre-school, school and higher education, but also within for example museums, archives and organizations of various kinds. We welcome presentations and papers that focus on practices, relations, materiality and life in relation to education and learning within all these arenas.

This could include for example presentations concerned with interpersonal relations (students/educators/parents etc) within educational contexts such as schools and higher education as well as museums, archives and organizations, and papers discussing the role that objects and materiality may play in educational contexts and learning processes. The panel is also open to presentations that highlight other aspects of the significance of the non-written within education and learning, related to for instance story-telling, narratives, folklore or tacit knowledge and to papers that in other ways want to use cultural perspectives to rewrite research on education and learning. We also welcome method-oriented papers connected to for instance practice-based research, where the experiences, ideas and competence of teachers and educators are seen as vital in the research process, and discussions of what role ethnological/anthropological/folklorist research may play in this.

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