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Abstract
This text responds to an explicit request for a review of my book (‘book review’) Eduquer à l‘environnement par l‘approche sensible. Art, ethnologie et écologie (To educate about the environment through a sensitive approach. Art, ethnology and ecology), prefaced by Allain Bougrain Dubourg and postfaced by Jean Malaurie. Given that the book is composed of two parts: a first part of anthropological analysis and a second part of pedagogical proposals supported by original ESE activity sheets responding to concepts, the article follows the formal logic of the book which also responds to an epistemological logic. As an ethnologist, I founded in 2000 the association SeA Science et Art, a structure of ESE through culture and cultures, i.e. art and ethnology, which has enabled me to set up, test and readjust over 18 years the workshops described in the book published in 2018.
The book summarises my journey to show how the Science/Art divide is of the same strain as the Nature/Culture divide which participates in the rationalisation of our relationship to the world and how to reconcile these separate domains for a more holistic ESE. The work then shows how art and ethnology allow us to develop an approach of sensitive anchoring to the territory and to learnings that favours connection with oneself and with the environment at large for an incarnated responsibility that makes sense.
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Notes
1 Associate researcher in laboratory UMR 5600 Environnement Ville Société –CNRS/Université de Lyon.
2 Most of my scientific references come from my research in anthropology corroborated by François Laplantine, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Laplantine Vice-President of SeA since its creation, professor emeritus of ethnology, author of more than 30 books (including Penser le sensible, Pocket, 2018), he is founder of the department of anthropology at the University of Lyon 2.
3 Science, Art, Nature, Culture with a capital letter in order to encompass the full range of concepts that these terms convey.
4 SeA, supported by the Faculty of Anthropology and Sociology of the University of Lyon 2, http://science-et-art.com/Science-et-Art-et-la-recherche has received the label of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) as well as the 2010 Biodiversity label.
5 All the SeA teaching tools that the author personally designed since 2000 and before, some of which the author have illustrated (drawings, poems and watercolours), are included in the book. They are gathered in an educational kit http://science-et-art.com/Mallette-Pedagogique which benefited from the scientific patronage of Edgar Morin and Jean-Marie Pelt (preface of the booklet "Balade poétique", 2008), Philippe Meirieu, Jean Malaurie and François Terrasson, as well as the recognition of André Giordan and Lucie Sauvé. http://science-et-art.com/Parrainages. This pedagogical toolkit was used extensively as part of the Regards de Rhône, Rhône en Rêves, Rhône en Vrai programme. aimed at primary schools from Lake Geneva to Montélimar, supported by the two rectorats concerned (Grenoble and Lyon), which mobilised more than 20000 children and their families, an average of 50 primary school classes per year spread over 8 departments for 17 years, in partnership with local authorities and ministries http://science-et-art.com/Projet-Regards-de-Rhone-action. et http://science-et-art.com/Liens
6 My reflection on a rationalisation in situation of cultural domination which crystallises resistance to emotion, to the sensitive and more broadly to the domain of the image as a symbol and not as a sign, has led to an ethnographic publication rehabilitating the image: the image at the service of the text, the image in the ethno-poetic text and the image-text as a discourse. Cf. E. Planche and C. Mignard (photographer) Jour de pêche en Dombes, Editions Aléas, 1996, préface by F. Laplantine.
7 See diagram book p.87.
8 Rationalism is used here in its absolute sense of an “ism”, and should not be confused with the useful forms of rationality which, in spite of increasing uncertainty and complexity (Morin), despite the call for a non-Cartesian epistemology (Bachelard), is still present in the European manner of structuring reality.
9 For her, it is a question of rediscovering our own belonging to Nature: implicare, "to feel oneself in it" is opposed to expliquare (Concepts elaborated by G. Deleuze, applied in an operational way by D. Cottereau for Environmental Education). because, to raise awareness, explanations are not enough.
10 Numerous walks including school families have been carried out on this model as part of SeA's territorial educational projects. http://www.science-et-art.com/Projet-Regards-de-Rhone-action
11 An evaluation questionnaire for the SeA workshops was drawn up based on the booklet "Evaluating in Environmental Education" designed by the Graine AuRA with the Grand Lyon and the IFEE, to which I contributed. Two remarkable skills emerged from the evaluations over several years: the Science and Art and Nature and Culture activities encourage an emotional investment for their territory by both the learners and their teacher. See https://augustinbouquetin.jimdofree.com/augustin/
In addition, teachers report a development of their own creativity in addition to that of their students.
13 Publication of watercolours and poems of Edith Planche (produced before 2018) in the book. Hommage à Basarab Nicolescu: L’Homme cosmoderne, Junimea, 2022.
14 The president of SeA, Philippe Louisgrand, artist and honorary director of the École Supérieure d'Art et Design de Saint-Étienne, and its vice-president, François Laplantine, ethnologist, have been the guarantors of coherence in these disciplines, namely art and ethnology. http://science-et-art.com/Actualite-du-President-et-du-Vice
15 Comments by E. Planche in the programme Écrire en classe, interview by Philippe Meirieu, Cap Canal, 2009.
16 By this concept I am referring to the blind spot of human perception. E. Planche (Citation2019), « Réveiller la force, cinq leçons pour réanimiser les peuples du Nord », in Arctica, oeuvres 2 (Dir. J. Malaurie).
17 "Art does not sleep in the beds made for it"(Jean Dubuffet) because it must let itself be thought instead of being thought, as the poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote: "one should say one thinks me". Cf. A. Rimbaud by G. Schaeffer, 1975.
18 Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, also known as “Le Facteur Cheval” (the horse factor), is an artist of art brut whose work, Le Palais idéal, was classified as a historical monument in 1969 by André Malraux. Cf. France Culture: "Le Facteur Cheval: que celui qui n'a jamais rêvé lui jette la première pierre…"-Le Palais idéal du Facteur Cheval ©Radio France by S. Nauleau & C. Diger, 22.03.2012.