The ‘Wild’ Classroom in Early Childhood Education: (Re) Imagining Learning and Being in the Outdoors
Tentative Agenda
8:30‐9:00
The morning will be spent together in Room: Welch Hall 324 Reception and last minute registration
9:00‐9:30
Welcome
9:30‐10:15
Opening Session From Present to Past to Future: Shaping Canadian Outdoor Education in the Early Years
Zabe MacEachren & Lindsay Morcom (Queen’s University)
10:15‐10:30
Refreshment Break
10:45‐11:45
Storytelling in the Outdoors to Promote Emotional and Ecological Literacy
Jon Cree (Middlesex University, London; Bishopswood Centre, Worcestershire County Council & Chair of the UK Forest School)
Modeling the Experiential Through (w)Holistic Ecoliteracy: (Re)Imagining Early Year Teacher Education, Lessons From a Nature Preschool
Christopher Filler & Jess Clausen (University of Victoria)
11:45‐12:45
Mid Day Refreshment Break & Posters–Room: Welch Hall Atrium
1:00‐2:00
Breakout Session 1‐Room: Welch Hall 207
Re‐imagining Encounters with/in the Woods: Post‐humanist Possibilities
Sherry Rose & Pam Whitty (University of New Brunswick)
How do Four‐year‐old Children Experience an Outdoor Forest Program?
Magdalena Rudkowski (Simon Fraser University)
1:00‐2:00
Breakout Session 2‐Room: Welch Hall 208
Lessons Learned from a Caterpillar, a Tiger, and a Group of 5‐Year Olds: A Mother’s Struggle with her Anthropocentric and Biocentric Reasoning
Farveh Ghafouri (Fanshawe College)
The Soaring Stars Summer Program: Developing a Sense of Wonder in Low‐income Rural Children
Leigh O’Brien (School of Education at SUNY Geneseo)
2:15‐2:30
Refreshment Break
2:45‐3:45
Breakout Session 3‐Room: Welch Hall 207
Our Outdoor Journey: Re‐Imaging Learning through the Outdoors in the Full‐Day Early Learning Kindergarten Program
Donna‐Lynn Galloway, Shannon Skinner (HCDSB), & Candace Rempel (OISE)
Trail Balloons Bring New Insight into Outdoor Play
Susan Ashley (Holland College) & Beverlie Dietze (Okanagan College)
Breakout Session 4‐Welch Hall 208
Anchoring us in Place: Nurturing Ecological Identities in (and out of) a University Early Childhood Classroom
Karyn Callaghan, Will Letts, & Randa Khattar (Charles Sturt University)
Forest and Nature School in Canada: Building a Connection to Wild and Natural Spaces through Emergent, Play, and Inquiry‐Based Early Childhood Education
Marlene Power (Forest School Canada)
3:50‐4:00
Closing Remarks (Welch Hall 208)
Registration Opens April 1, 2014
All attendees and presenters must register (Regular fee $20; Student fee $10).
To register for the 1 day event go directly to the membership services main page (link below);
choose CAREC Post‐Conference 2014 from the drop down list under Event Registration. Please note: you do not need to register for the main CSSE conference to attend the CAREC post‐conference.
http://www.assocsrv.ca/index.asp?LANG=E
The CAREC Post Conference is brought to you by the organizing committee of Debra Harwood (CAREC SIG President; Brock University); Alaina L. Roach O’Keefe (UPEI); Mary‐Louise Vanderlee (Brock)