Kirsi Aarbakke
Kirsi Aarbakke is an art educator and doctoral candidate at the University of Lapland. She has worked over twenty years as an art teacher and eurythmy teacher at the Waldorf school and within Waldorf education. At the moment, she is working on the project Sustainable World Heritage Learning through a Phenomenon-based Approach (SveaSus) at the University of Helsinki, where embodied methods and arts-based learning are studied within sustainability education in teacher training. Kirsi is researching how embodied methods affect interaction, empathy and understanding between people and their surroundings. In her study, she uses eurythmy, movement improvisation and spontaneous painting. Her main interest is widening the experience of knowledge and increasing interaction through the arts. Kirsi has had exhibitions and she is a performing artist within eurythmy.
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SveaSus Project
The overall aim of the SveaSus project is to contribute to sustainable societal transformation by means of inter- and transdisciplinary research and education. In this way, SveaSus aims to strengthen student teachers', in-service-teachers' and teacher educators’ understanding of sustainability issues and encourage joint action towards a more sustainable future.
The project co-creates knowledge through research, experiments, living labs and best practices for educational policy, the private sector and society, especially teacher education and schools. The project team members, who are themselves teacher educators, answer to the call to take action in order to manage the complex and urgent sustainability dilemmas in the Anthropocene epoch with climate change being a serious threat.
The project co-creates knowledge through research, experiments, living labs and best practices for educational policy, the private sector and society, especially teacher education and schools. The project team members, who are themselves teacher educators, answer to the call to take action in order to manage the complex and urgent sustainability dilemmas in the Anthropocene epoch with climate change being a serious threat.