Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying
Kristiina Kumpulainen, Chin Chin Wong, Jenny Byman, Jenny Renlund, Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur
Abstract
In this study we investigated how augmented storying fosters children’s ecological imagination. Augmented storying couples culturally-based nature stories embedded in augmented storytelling technology with children’s own mobile and multimodal storying activities outdoors in local ecologies. The study took place during a four-month, cross-curricular project in a Finnish elementary school and its neighborhood. Results reveal affective, embodied, sensual, cultural-scientific, symbolic, and moral intensities, highlighting the educational possibilities of augmented storying as a way to enhance children’s ecological imagination by becoming entangled with multimodal stories about the places they inhabit.