Walking Wisdom: A Practical Exploration of Pedagogical Strides

Walking Wisdom: A Practical Exploration of Pedagogical Strides

Walking methods are gaining recognition in various educational contexts today. They sustain creativity and embodied cognition towards socio-ecological sustainability. How do these methods operate? Let’s step into nature, and with examples and hands-on experiences into the diverse applications of walking methods in pedagogy.

How can we recognize the centrality of landscape, both as a driver of change and as something affected by it? How do people move within a particular area because they are attracted to that very landscape, while at the same time reshaping it? We explore these and other questions on site. With example from walks through the paradoxes of nostalgia and rural gentrification at Gotland, and with specially designed activities in Bokedalen Nature Reserve to explore walking as a powerful pedagogical tool.

Simon Poole Associate Professor of Cultural Education at the University of Chester, UK, and Guest professor at the University of Gothenburg 2024 will lead the  creative walkhop where we walk approximately 5 km and try different methods of combining walking/movement and pedagogy.

Digital participation: We will broadcast from this seminar/walkshop between  9.30-11.00

Walkshop in situ at Jonsered Manor, near Gothenburg, Sweden at 9.00- 15.30 CET  

The creative walkshop involves hiking approximately 5 km.

Participants are required to bring their own packed lunch.

Coffe will be served at Jonsered Manor at the end of the day.

– If you would like to join the walkshop at Jonsered, please contact: Lena Ulrika Rudeke, lenaulrika.rudeke@gu.se, +4631 786 54 15, or Camilla Brudin Borg, camilla.brudin.borg@lir.gu.se.

This workshop is a collaboration between One by Walking and Department of literature, history

of ideas and religion at the University of Gothenburg and Jonsered Manor at Gothenburg University

The walkshop is featuring:

Simon Poole, Associate Professor of Cultural Education at the University of Chester, England and  Guest professor at The University of Gothengurg 2024.

Si  work currently focuses on cultural education; creative pedagogy; walking methodologies; horticulture and wellbeing; intercultural use of music; informal songwriting; and arts, and crafts, based initiatives. He is the Managing Director of Soil Records; Singer and songwriter with 'The loose kites' and is a published poet.

and also 

Hanna Elisabet Åberg, researcher, the Horizon Europe project TRIGGER, at the University of Lund.

​With a background in landscape architecture and heritage studies, Hanna is interested in landscape values, perception and how we further conserve our surroundings through policy and legislations. She is a part of a research group in the Department of Architecture in Bologna working with tourism, cultural landscapes and heritage conservation in rural areas across Europe.

Camilla Brudin Borg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Camilla  is specializing in literature, ecocriticism and environmental humanities where she is studying walking and narratives on The Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain combining literary analysis and in-the field methods. She is also the leader the citizen science research project Utopian stories that studies visions of a future good life and creative storytelling as a tool for sustainable transformation.