Nature Pedagogies
Duration
- One Semester or Equivelent
Contact hours
- Swinburne online: Fully online
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2022 teaching periods
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 2 |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 3 | |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
EDU20053 - Curriculum Planning and Assessment: Practicum 2Aims and objectives
2. Explore and explain holistic natural learning methodologies.
3. Critically evaluate regulatory requirements versus natural learning pedagogies.
4. Create and justify a holistic natural learning program.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Swinburne Online | ||||||
Activity | Total Hours | Number of Weeks | Hours Per Week | Optional - Activity Details | ||
Various | 72 | 12 weeks | 6 | Prescribed readings Online activities | ||
Independent Learning | 78 | 12 weeks | 6.5 | Independent study Readings Assignment preparation | ||
Total Hours: | 150 | Total Hours (per week): | 12.5 |
Assessment
Type | Individual or Group | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs | ||
Folio | Individual | 50% | 1,2 | ||
Folio | Individual | 50% | 3,4 |
General skills outcomes
Analysis Skills
Problem Solving Skills
Communication Skills
Ability to work independently
Content
- Philosophies of learning and playing in, with and through nature
- Methodologies of learning and playing in, with and through nature
- Contemporary research: Nature Play, Bush kinder and Forest schools
- Relationships with and in spaces
- Relationships with and in nature
- Human and non-human animals learning together
- Developing nature play policies
- Excursions and incursions
- Choosing a site
- Risk assessments
- Regulatory requirements
- Sensory learning
- Risk taking
- Natural play pedagogies
- Outdoor learning
- Natural resources and materials
Study resources
- References.
References
Malone, K. (2004) “Holding Environments”: Creating spaces to support children’s environmental learning in the 21st century, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 20, pp. 53-66.
Malone, K. (2007) The Bubble-wrap generation: children growing up in walled gardens, Environmental Education Researcher, 13 (4), pp. 513-528
http://attitudematters.org/documents/Every%20Experience%20Matters.pdf
Malone, K (2016a) Posthumanist approaches to theorizing children’s human-nature relations, K. Nairn et al. (eds.), Space, Place and Environment, Geographies of Children and Young People Volume 3, DOI
10.1007/978-981-4585-90-3_14-1
Malone, Karen, Birrell, Carol, Boyle, Ian and Gray, Tonia (2015) Wild Nature Play: Researching OOSH in the Bush, Centre for Educational Research, University of Western Sydney. Retrieved from https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:31190/
Malone, K., Dimoulias, K., Truong, S., and Ward, K. (2014) Researching Children’s Designs for a Child Friendly Play Space at Rouse Hill Town Centre, Centre for Educational Research, University of Western Sydney. Retrieved from
https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:34882/