#69: Creating Artifacts for Expansive Science Teaching through Art-Based Collaboration

The need for newer ways to enact human-nature relationships calls for educational practices to expand their boundaries of learning. Several educational initiatives have engaged in integrating arts-based practices with science learning to broaden the scope and aims of learning. However, the creation of artifacts that mediate the processes by which science educators can expand their pedagogical repertoire to engage with the emergent possibilities of arts-based practices has received less attention. This study describes collaborative processes between an artist and a pre-service teacher, Becca, which inspired her attempts to reimagine her teaching aims and practices, as part of a summer camp research–design partnership on a community urban farm. The study highlights how the evolution of pedagogical artifacts through collaborations made space for emergent learning anchored in embodied experiences.