Editorial: Arts Education in a More-Than-Human World

Abstract

<p>"Once upon a time, in a world where change danced on the horizon like leaves in the wind, there were art teachers, artist-pedagogues, artists, and art educational researchers, who read themselves into the posthumanist theories.</p><p>Or maybe they engaged with the key ideas of these theories through their colleagues, or from random YouTube videos.</p><p>Or maybe they ended up following the call of vital materialities, or became attracted by encounters with other-than-human species (clicks of cameras capturing fleeting moments, water droplets dotting on snow, or the whispers of limpets clinging to rocky shores).</p><p>In any case, something in the world made them think differently their understandings of learning, pedagogies, art practices and research.</p><p>This resulted in creative experimentation, rigorous rethinking of existing practices, and negotiating ethical responses to the messy, complex entanglements in the more-than-human worlds."</p>