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Using collage inquiry as an art-based research method, the project makes teachers’ relationships with both places visible and supports reflection, conversation, and writing. 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In this study, we consider how primary teachers from two schools in Gothenburg, Sweden, experience the forest and the urban area as potential learning environments. This study focuses on teachers’ perceptions (understanding) and experiences (emotional) of two places, the urban area, and the forest. To make visible teachers' relationships with the urban area and the forest, we use collage inquiry as a research method to stimulate teachers’ reflection, conversation and writing about the forest and urbanarea. Primary teachers from three schools in Sweden participated in the study and made collages The collage inquiry brought out their emotions, perspectives, and curiosity about the forest and the urban area described in three themes; temporarily situated, place dependent and emotionally connected. Knowledge of teachers' perceptions and experiences ensures opportunities to deepen the ability to teach technology beyond the classroom. To bridge between biology and technology and compare ecological and technological systems constitutes a possible basis for continued work and development of teaching for sustainable development.  \nKeywords  \nEcological literacy, technological literacy, collage inquiry, practice-based research.  \nIntroduction  \nTeachers’ perceptions and experiences of how technological systems and ecological systems are structured, and function have significance for how they tackle sustainability issues in the classroom. The study presented in this paper is part of a collaborative practice-based research project (Svensson, Sanders, & Thorén Williams, 2022) aiming at finding new paths in education for sustainable development through school subjects, technology, and biology. In the project, biomimicry forms a bridge between knowledge of the ecological systems in the forest and how these systems can be imitated in human-made technological systems in an urban environment for increased sustainability. The urbanisation of society indicates that the distance between people living in urban environments and nature is increasing. Reflection is viewed as one of the powerful ways for teachers to develop their knowledge (Dillon, 2011) and a sense of being able to handle teaching subject content in relation to sustainability issues in the classroom. In this study, we explore an art-based method to stimulate reflection. The method, which is inspired by Butler-Kisber's (2010) chapter in Qualitative Inquiry: Thematic, narrative and arts-based perspectives and is called ‘Collage inquiry’. The purpose is on the one hand to the mapping of teachers’ perceptions and experiences of nature and urban environments, and on the other hand, to evaluate the potential of the collage inquiry as a tool for stimulating reflection and making different perspectives visible.  \nThe teachers’ perceptions and experiences of the forest and the urban area, lay the ground for their bridging of the two environments to address sustainability issues on a system level in the classroom. In this paper, we make a distinction between perceiving and experiencing something. Perceiving connects to how we think and what we understand while experiencing relates to emotions and senses. Concerning our purposes, these research questions are identified:  \n• What perceptions and experiences of the urban area and the forest appear in the collage inquiry?  \n• In what ways does the collage inquiry make visible teachers' relationships with the urban area and the forest?  \nBackground  \nPractice-based research is of relevance for education and pedagogy, aiming at schools’development and conducted by resea","cbCaiihYFGcKCQK1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiihYFGcKCQK1","pdf",429005,13,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Background","[{\"question\":\"What is the main aim of the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study aims to support professional development by exploring new educational pathways for sustainable development, focusing on how teachers experience forests and urban areas as learning environments.\"},{\"question\":\"How does collage inquiry function in the research?\",\"answer\":\"Collage inquiry is used as an art-based method to stimulate teachers’ reflection, conversation, and writing, helping make their relationships with the forest and urban area visible.\"},{\"question\":\"Which themes emerged from teachers’ perceptions and experiences?\",\"answer\":\"Teachers’ perceptions and emotional experiences are described in three themes: temporarily situated, place dependent, and emotionally connected.\"}]","Collage as a Reflective Tool - Teachers’ Perspectives on Forests and Urban Environments | PDF",1792090657,33]