- Title
- Learning in place: Pedagogical pathways for place-making
- Creator
- Green, Monica
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/75283
- Identifier
- vital:7334
- Identifier
- ISBN:1324-9339
- Abstract
- Abstract: This paper examines the position and role of 'place' in primary school curriculum. Drawing on the research literature and preliminary data the paper analyses a re-imagined environmental education program at a primary school. Innovative and collaborative processes that depict children as integral designers of a new garden place are discussed. Focus is given to the school ground as an important site for teaching and learning. The role of an ecological centre designed to teach children about sustainable building principles is discussed. Attention is drawn to the importance of children as place makers via endeavours that encourage and support children's fascination and affinity with outdoor places in the school ground. Tending a food garden is proposed as a significant pedagogical pathway for nurturing children's sense of wonder and enabling familiarity and a love of the natural world. Keywords: place, place makers, children, school ground, natural world, gardening
- Publisher
- AARE
- Relation
- AARE 2008 p. 1-19
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1301 Education Systems; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; Campuses; Ecology; Learning environment; Sustainable development
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