Papers by Inger Birkeland
New Perspectives on Humanities Education: Use of Resources from Kindergarten to Higher Education, 2023
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Vital Signs, Mar 22, 2018
This is a book chapter published in "Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Cris... more This is a book chapter published in "Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis" edited by Mary-Jayne Rust and Nick Totton (Karnac books, 2012). Ecopsychology has much to offer early childhood education. The chapter sheds light on how we might educate young people for another way of living sustainably by developing place as a tool for education for sustainable development based in ideas from ecopsychology. The connections between children and play in outdoor places are elaborated, in particular in terms of attachment to the more-than-natural world. Play foster the development of place literacy, which is understood as a particular competence, an ability to learn from direct experience to create meaningful understandings of what it means to be (in) place and what it means how to know our place and other places. Educationists and ecopsychologists agree that a transition to a sustainable future must include change, and in particular change of human beings´ lives, values and practices. Such change must start in early childhood, for several reasons, but most importantly because values, attitudes, behaviours and skills for sustainability acquired in this period may have a long-lasting impact in later life. The empirical material in the chapter is based in the results of a project in a private kindergarten in Tinn municipality in Norway, where Astrid Aasen, one of the authors, worked.
The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, 2018
The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences
Story 1-Cultural Industries for Sustainable Development? THREE ROLES FOR CULTURE IN SUSTAINABLE D... more Story 1-Cultural Industries for Sustainable Development? THREE ROLES FOR CULTURE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Thriving on complexity Culture Development Sustainability or sustainable development? Social and cultural sustainability: same or different? Policy Story 2-The Stories Museums Tell Multiple contributions of culture to sustainable development Supporting Sustainability-A self-standing role for culture in sustainable development 29 Connecting sustainability-The mediating role of culture for sustainable development 30 Creating sustainability-The transformative role of culture Year Agency Event or Publication 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritageratified by +150 countries 2004 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Adoption of 'Agenda 21 for Culture' 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions-ratified by +130 countries 2007 UN UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007 Fribourg Group Fribourg Declaration on Cultural Rights 2009 UN Human Rights Council Established a post of Independent Expert in the field of cultural rights for a 3-year period (extended) 2010 UN General Assembly Resolution re: connection between culture and developmentadopted 2010 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Story 1-Cultural Industries for Sustainable Development? THREE ROLES FOR CULTURE IN SUSTAINABLE D... more Story 1-Cultural Industries for Sustainable Development? THREE ROLES FOR CULTURE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Thriving on complexity Culture Development Sustainability or sustainable development? Social and cultural sustainability: same or different? Policy Story 2-The Stories Museums Tell Multiple contributions of culture to sustainable development Supporting Sustainability-A self-standing role for culture in sustainable development 29 Connecting sustainability-The mediating role of culture for sustainable development 30 Creating sustainability-The transformative role of culture Year Agency Event or Publication 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritageratified by +150 countries 2004 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Adoption of 'Agenda 21 for Culture' 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions-ratified by +130 countries 2007 UN UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007 Fribourg Group Fribourg Declaration on Cultural Rights 2009 UN Human Rights Council Established a post of Independent Expert in the field of cultural rights for a 3-year period (extended) 2010 UN General Assembly Resolution re: connection between culture and developmentadopted 2010 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Industrialisering er et vesentlig kjennetegn ved utviklingen av moderne samfunn. Nar en rekke omr... more Industrialisering er et vesentlig kjennetegn ved utviklingen av moderne samfunn. Nar en rekke omrader i dag bade beskrives og behandles som postindustrielle, ryddes industrisamfunn inn i en ordnet fortid som omgas, erfares og gjores bruk av pa nye mater. Industriarv utgjor en sentral komponent i slike prosesser. Men endringene som akkompagnerer transformasjon av industri til industriarv varierer og er ofte sammensatte. Ikke minst fordi de vanskelig kan forstas uten a ta hensyn til de historiske miljoene som industrien selv, ofte pa radikalt vis, har bidratt til a skape.
This publication presents conclusions emerging from a four-year (2011-15) COST Action IS1007 Inve... more This publication presents conclusions emerging from a four-year (2011-15) COST Action IS1007 Investigating Cultural Sustainability, attempting to strengthen and more solidly ground sustainability by integrating culture and cultural perspectives into it. The Action aimed to strengthen sustainable development’s conceptual framework, suggest ways of operationalising the new perspectives and insights, and to locate culture in sustainability policies and assessments. This publication offers ways forward to harness culture to the sustainable development goals.
All human beings understand themselves in relation to a place, and human actions, practices and c... more All human beings understand themselves in relation to a place, and human actions, practices and considerations are linked to meaningful places. This makes it crucial to understand more of where different learning situations take place. To enhance teaching and learning practices in nature, the article discusses theoretical perspectives on place and nature and introduces materiality as a vital and necessary aspect of nature as learning environment. Building on an empirical example from a Ph. D. research project, the article asks: How can we understand learning environments in a schools nearby surroundings as place, nature and materiality? In this article, we show how teachers and students draw upon multiple experiences from different contexts and view nature from an outsider perspective. The article concludes with discussions on teachers and students experiences on highlighting and appreciating more and new qualities and aspects of nature in learning situations.
Cultural Sustainability and the Nature–Culture Interface, 2018
Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, 2017
Abstract:This article deals with the problem of making sense of the future. Future-making is an i... more Abstract:This article deals with the problem of making sense of the future. Future-making is an interesting issue to consider when exploring contemporary uses of the industrial past. Critical analysis of industrial heritage takes on new dimensions in light of global climate change, which implies a fundamentally different context for valuing the past. The article focuses on the imaginary construction of the future in relation to the heritage of industrial societies. Focusing on the Telemark region of Norway, it examines how narratives of industrialization and deindustrialization have been implicated in the region's heritage. Two towns in Telemark were added to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2015 under the category of technical-industrial heritage, and they hold a special place in Norwegian modern history and identity. Here, I discuss the extent to which images of the future were either present or absent in the narratives constructed about the place. I also argue that heritagization is related not only to the past but to the future through the way humans make and draw upon visions of sustainable futures using aspiration and imagination.
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2017
Hva kan ensidige industristeder lære oss om klimaomstilling? I Kulturelle hjørnesteiner presenter... more Hva kan ensidige industristeder lære oss om klimaomstilling? I Kulturelle hjørnesteiner presenterer jeg ny forskning og nye, teoretiske og didaktiske perspektiver på klimaomstilling. Her argumenterer jeg for at god klimaomstilling starter hjemme, det vil si der hvor folk bor, i skoler og barnehager, gjennom utvikling av kultur, kunnskap og læring. Her presenteres forskning i og med skoler og barnehager i Tinn og Notodden, kommuner med ensidige industristeder som har lang erfaring med krevende omstillingsprosesser. Jeg undersøker hvilke betydninger sted har for dannelse og sosialisering, og viser hvordan sted kan brukes som en integrerende ramme for undervisning om klimaendringer og for klimaomstilling. Boken er skrevet for kultur- og samfunnsforskere og er i tillegg relevant for undervisning i samfunnsfag i lærerutdanningene, i skolen og for alle med interesse for stedsutvikling. Innledningskapitlet er gjengitt med tillatelse fra forlaget på bloggen min http://sensesofplace.blogspot.no/2014_06_01_archive.html
Mobility and place. Enacting Northern European …, 2008
... Modem people are, to a great extent, travelling human beings, and modem societies are increas... more ... Modem people are, to a great extent, travelling human beings, and modem societies are increasingly mobile ones (Lasch and Urry 1994, Baerenholdt et al. 2004). ... Baerenholdt, JO, Haldrup, M., Larsen, J. and Urry, J.(2004), Performing Tourist Places (Aldershot: Ashgate). ...
Geoforum, 2014
ABSTRACT There has been growing interest in policy and among scholars to consider culture as an a... more ABSTRACT There has been growing interest in policy and among scholars to consider culture as an aspect of sustainable development and even as a fourth pillar. However, until recently, the understanding of culture within the framework of sustainable development has remained vague. In this study, we investigate the scientific discourse on cultural sustainability by analyzing the diverse meanings that are applied to the concept in scientific publications. The analysis shows that the scientific discourse on cultural sustainability is organized around seven storylines: heritage, vitality, economic viability, diversity, locality, eco-cultural resilience, and eco-cultural civilization. These storylines are partly interlinked and overlapping, but they differ in terms of some contextualized aspects. They are related to four political and ideological contexts, conservative, neoliberal, communitarian, and environmentalist, which provide interesting perspectives on the political ideologies and policy arenas to which cultural sustainability may refer. Some of the story lines establish the fourth pillar of sustainability, whereas others can be seen as instrumental, contributing to the achievement of social, economic, or ecological goals of sustainability. The eco-cultural civilization story line suggests culture as a necessary foundation for the transition to a truly sustainable society.
Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability, 2015
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