Unlearning through art: Developing decolonising and empathic pedagogies in climate mobilities education

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio; Vilhelmiina Vainikka; Jouni Häkli

doi:10.1177/09075682251392497

Unlearning through art: Developing decolonising and empathic pedagogies in climate mobilities education

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
, Vilhelmiina Vainikka
, Jouni Häkli

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This paper introduces arts-based participatory research combining decolonising and empathic transformative environmental pedagogies, in the context of climate mobilities education in Finland and Greece. It offers methodological contributions to existing research with emphasis on multimodal arts methods and the role of emotions. We introduce the dimension of empathic unsettlement as a vital element of the transformative unlearning-learning cycle, and child-centred play space as an ethical setting for these challenging educational processes. Our focus on climate mobilities brings together experienced and imagined climate-changed realities, the colonial history of climate change, and its current effects on places and people around the world.

Alkuperäiskieli	Englanti
Sivut	170-191
Sivumäärä	22
Julkaisu	Childhood
Vuosikerta	33
Numero	2
Varhainen verkossa julkaisun päivämäärä	27 lokak. 2025
DOI - pysyväislinkit	https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682251392497
Tila	Julkaistu - toukok. 2026
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Research Council of Finland [SA347374, SA339833].

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Research Council of Finland	SA347374, SA339833

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