@article{Suorsa_2020, title={Energy, Experience, and Educational Psychology: Changing practices in and beyond Fossil Capitalism}, volume={48}, url={https://nordia.journal.fi/article/view/90708}, abstractNote={<p>I first introduce an approach in educational psychology that has developed ways of understanding individuals’ actions and experiences in explicit relation to socio-material practices and societal conditions. Next, I describe the particularities of human experience in the era of fossil capitalism, suggesting that, in educational psychological and multi-disciplinary research on experience and action, we should pay particular attention to homogeneous and heterogeneous aspects of subjective and collective experience, as well as to diverse manifestations of <em>nihilism</em> in human activities. Thereafter, I exemplify this approach with an excerpt from an empirical study of psychosocial welfare work in schools, illustrating how to detect the dynamics of choosing ‘a ghost’ over a socio-material practice when developing a school. Finally, I discuss the possibilities of this approach for multi-disciplinary research that aims to understand and support human strivings in a fossil and post-fossil era.</p>}, number={6}, journal={Nordia Geographical Publications}, author={Suorsa, Teemu}, year={2020}, month={Mar.}, pages={31–46} }