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CultureNature Literacy for Growing Futures
By addressing ethical, philosophical, pedagogical and aesthetic questions regarding the relevance of plants in children’s and young adult ecofiction, the conference “Growing Futures: Vegetal Encounters in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Ecofiction” at the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) at the University of Cologne explored April 25-27, 2024, how vegetal encounters are re-imagined for a younger readership against the backdrop of a deepening environmental crisis. Since the conference intended to forge a dialogue between ecocritical research and literature pedagogy, Carmen Sippl presented the concept of CultureNature Literacy and the CNL narratives as examples how primary and secondary school teachers can address the troubled relationship between human beings and the vegetal world in language learning contexts.
Daily Networking and Animal Support Group
In the course "Perfoming," students of primary education at the University College of Teacher Education Lower Austria have created videos exploring the human-nature relationship from an animal perspective. These CNL narratives are thematically rooted in selected narratives of the Anthropocene. The stories were inspired by ideas from author Melanie Laibl. The CNL project partners reviewed the videos as critical friends and commented on their use in teaching/learning contexts to promote CultureNature Literacy. You can find the videos here.
CultureNature Literacy: Exploring the Aesthetic Perspective
Students of primary education at the University College of Teacher Education Lower Austria have engaged in aesthetic research to craft CNL narratives and design learning activities aimed at fostering an appreciative perception of the environment as our world. They presented their projects to the CNL research team as critical friends on January 23rd and 30th, 2024.
Multiplier Event on October 19, 2023, at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
The Green Multiplier Event on October 19, 2023, in Munich aimed at fostering networking and active participation. The program points were not only informative but also emphasized collaborative and co-creative exchanges. You can download the report here.
Training "Cultural Sustainability as a Transformative Educational Concept: Best Practice Examples for Teaching and Education"
On October 19, 2023, LMU Munich invites you to the Multiplier/Green Event of the ERASMUS+ Project CultureNature Literacy (CNL), offered in a hybrid format as a training for educators.
For registration from Austria via PH-Online, please follow the link. Additionally, you must register through this link with the host, LMU Munich.
The program is available for online viewing [here] and for download [here] (including registration links). It also contains the Zoom link for the event.
Newsletter at the End of WP 1
At the center of work package 1 was the CNL manual. It was written collaboratively as a handbook for the conceptual grounding of the new research term CultureNature Literacy and contains
- the definition of Anthropocene Literacy in a variety of forms,
- the outline of framework conditions for its realization
- and recommendations for its curricular implementation.
#ErasmusDays 2023: Photo-Challenge #CultureNature at Campus Baden
From October 9 to October 14, 2023, PH-NÖ-Campus in Baden will showcase its European commitment during the Erasmus Days and invites students and staff to participate in an Instagram photo challenge. The contest is inspired by the Erasmus+ project "CultureNature Literacy". In this project, the University of Education Lower Austria promotes Anthropocene competence and cultural sustainability, together with nine European partners. The university community is warmly invited to participate! Details and information about the prizes can be found [here].
Sustainability for All Educational Paths
From September 18th to 20th, 2023, 13 Swiss school principals and education researchers met their colleagues at the University of Education Lower Austria (PH NÖ). Sustainability as a cross-cutting theme for all educational paths was a program focus. The PH NÖ presented the ÖKOLOG network and the CultureNature Literacy (CNL) project: [Read the report here]
Childhood and Ecology
At the international IRSCL Congress "Ecologies of Childhood" from August 12th to 17th, 2023, at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Carmen Sippl (PH NÖ) and Berbeli Wanning (Uni Siegen) presented initial results of the Erasmus+ project CultureNature Literacy for discussion: [Read the blog post here]
Environmental Humanities meet Education
CultureNature Literacy: During the transnational project meeting, organized from April 12th to 14th, 2023, by the University of Siegen, the first milestone of the Erasmus+ project was presented: [Read the blog post here]
Teach and learn NatureCulture (NaturKultur lernen und lehren)
“Nature is, who we are. Culture is, what we do” with these words, Erwin Rauscher , Rector of the PH NÖ, opened the kick-off meeting for the Erasmus+ project 'CultureNature Literacy' (CNL). It took place on November 14th and 15th, 2022, at the Visitor Center of the Hohe Tauern National Park in Mallnitz - a location deliberately chosen by the host, Sabine Seidler (EKUZ/Forum Anthropozän), for this international educational project: [Read the blog post here.]