The sculpture kit : Material pedagogy and entangled making

Barrett, Ellie (2025) The sculpture kit : Material pedagogy and entangled making. Studies in Art Education. ISSN 2325-8039 (In Press)

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Abstract

Play, making and learning are increasingly understood in arts education and the wider social sciences as overlapping rather than distinct. This resonates with new materialist philosophies applied in a visual art context, which present the material encounter as a means of accessing information about the world, positioning it as a form of pedagogy. “The sculpture kit,” a collection of six materials (developed collaboratively with a young child, and then tested with larger groups of adults and children) responds to this condition. This paper presents the kit as a method to facilitate experiences of “entangled making,” acknowledging materials’ pedagogical role towards observing exchanges of knowledge between children and adults, materials and humans.