{"id":272,"date":"2018-09-23T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livingwithplastics.climateactionchildhood.net\/?p=272"},"modified":"2019-02-10T10:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T10:44:33","slug":"through-our-participation-in-the-project-rethinking-the-rs-we-are-inviting-a-group-of-children-to-join-us-in-keeping-a-waste-material-plastics-in-mind-and-in-sight-tappi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwithplastics.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/2018\/09\/23\/through-our-participation-in-the-project-rethinking-the-rs-we-are-inviting-a-group-of-children-to-join-us-in-keeping-a-waste-material-plastics-in-mind-and-in-sight-tappi\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic in sight & in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Through our participation in the project Rethinking the R\u2019s<\/em>, we are inviting a group of children to join us in keeping a waste material, plastics, \u201cin mind and in sight.\u201d Tapping into the sensorial and affective possibilities of the arts, we are investigating new directions for early childhood education that rethink management approaches<\/em> (reduce, reuse, recycle) and refigure young children\u2019s relationships with waste. We are connecting important ideas from the environmental humanities with early childhood education pedagogy to develop new insights into how young children might be able to change waste futures. At a classroom level, we are interested in children\u2019s engagements with the natural processes of waste material transformation: How might children engage with plastic\u2019s transformation processes? We decide to begin by asking: How might we invite children to attend to plastic? Gathering, paying attention, noticing, and lingering are guiding our movements and invitations.<\/p>\n

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We gathered empty plastic water bottles and filled them with plastic that we gathered in the classroom and beyond. We carefully curated more than 50 bottles, filled to different levels, that contained everyday plastic items such as beads, bags, diapers, straws, cutlery, food containers, cut up plastic cups, dental floss, hairbrush pieces, plastic shopping bags, \u201ccompostable\u201d plastic bags, Post-it notes, grass trimmer string, telephone wire, plastic gloves, Saran wrap, bingo chips, mesh bags for holding oranges, avocado bags, onion bags, dental floss containers, dental picks, zip ties, netting tubes, ice pack holders, credit card pieces, CD pieces, pens\u2026 As the children enter the classroom, they notice the bottles\u2014and the absence of toys and materials that they are accustomed to.\u00a0 \u00a0The bottles are filled with plastics, yet they go unnoticed. What kinds of movement might plastic bottles invite?<\/p>\n

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