Relational Encounters with Folk School Pedagogies: Craft as Creative Inquiry [Hardcover]

Part 1: Body Matter: Framework??1. Human Created (In)justice and Rethinking the Human? 2. Crafting with Folk School Pedagogies? 3. Thought Partners, Turns, and Time??Part 2: Body Matter: Application??4. Folding Literature: Theory, Inquiry, Pedagogy, and Folk Schools? 5. Interviewing Teachers: A Watercolorist and Birder/Naturalist? 6. Collaging Archives: A Library, Arboretum, and Folk School? 7. Journaling Nature: A Class at The Clearing? 8. Folk School Informed Futures

This book explores folk school pedagogies through craft as a creative inquiry.

How can the gentle wisdom of folk schools reshape the future of educational research? Amber Wards Relational Encounters with Folk School Pedagogies draws inspiration from the history of The Clearing Folk School and the enduring vision of Jens Jensen to redefine pedagogy, ethics, and inquiry. At the heart of this work is the concept of craft as creative inquirya relational process that bridges art, nature, and posthuman philosophy.

Ward skillfully integrates folk school principles with innovative approaches to research, offering a vision of inquiry that is as tactile and grounded as it is transformative. By embracing materially meaningful practices like sewing, collaging, and journaling, this book reimagines research as an act of wonder and care, always in motion and always in relation.

With profound insight and imaginative depth, Relational Encounters invites readers to weave new ways of thinking and beingcrafting a more connected, ethical, and creative future for educational research.

Maureen Flint, University of Georgia, USA

Amber Ward provides new understandings of craft education and folk school pedagogies, beautifully weaving together personal and embodied narratives of lC¹