#1006: Learning with Water: Making Nature-Culture Relations by Attending to the Sound of Water

The natural world is an active learning environment and provides a discursive context in which humans make meaning with one another. One way to experience collective meaning making in this learning environment is through group forest walks by walking, storying, and mapping lands and waters which Marin et al. (2020) refer to as ‘learning on-the-move.’ This ongoing micro-ethnographic study uses video-based interaction analysis to understand the moment-to-moment unfolding of learning by paying attention to the semiotic layering of talk and movement while on forest walks during the monsoon season. The preliminary findings demonstrate how water shapes learning processes and learning environments as participants attend to relations with water through shifts in their movements, bodies, and conversation in relation to water while on forest walks.