Playing in the Muck and Other Arty Stuff

Playing in the Muck and Other Arty Stuff
Author: Adelle Caunce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2018-05-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980994381

This resource is meant to work directly with Gillian Judson's "A Walking Curriculum: Evoking Wonder And Developing Sense of Place" (available on Amazon.com). It provides fun, art based activities to correspond with 30 of Gillian's walks, is designed to engage imagination, help foster a sense of wonder at the world around us, and give the kids a bit of a giggle while they're learning. Images are black and white to make photocopying a breeze.

A Walking Curriculum for the Early Years

A Walking Curriculum for the Early Years
Author: Michelle McKay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Education, Elementary
ISBN: 9781738695300

"This innovative, interdisciplinary resource designed specifically for Early Years educators, outlines an imaginative and ecological approach to taking student learning outside school walls. Specifically, it shapes A Walking Curriculum (Judson, 2018) for primary-aged learners. Educators in urban, suburban, and even rural areas often have few imagination-focused curricular resources that can develop students' sense of ecological understanding, through play, wonder, and walking - this resource can help fill that gap. This book includes 33 walking themes paired with cognitive tools to engage emotion and imagination in learning. Each walk describes how to introduce, follow up, and play with each walk. The walks can be used in any context to develop students' sense of Place and to enrich their understanding of curricular topics. Engaging students' imaginations within these settings through the use of cognitive tools will broaden their awareness of the unique characteristics of Place and evoke their sense of wonder and learning. The walks and imagination-focused learning activities that go with them provide opportunities for educators to further develop students' sense-making abilities, allowing for the learning experiences to be meaningful and authentic. As co-learners, educators and students will bring learning to life through taking action, building community, and sparking imagination and fun."--

Layered curriculum

Layered curriculum
Author: Kathie F. Nunley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781929358120

Ecologies for Learning and Practice

Ecologies for Learning and Practice
Author: Ronald Barnett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-11-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351020242

Ecologies for Learning and Practice provides the first systematic account of the ideas of learning ecologies and ecologies of practice and locates the two concepts within the context of our contemporary world. It focuses on how individuals and society are being presented with all manner of learning challenges arising from fluidities and disruptions, which extend across all domains of life. This book examines emerging ways of understanding and living purposively in these new fluidities and provides fresh perspectives on the way we learn and achieve in such dynamic contexts. Providing an insight into the research of a range of internationally renowned contributors, this book explores diverse topics from the higher education and adult learning worlds. These include: The challenges faced by education systems today The concept of ecologies for learning and practice The role and responsibility of higher education institutions in advancing ecological approaches to learning The different eco-social systems of the world—local and global, economic, cultural, practical, technological, and ethical How adult learners might create and manage their own ecologies for learning and practice in order to sustain themselves and flourish With its proposals for individual and institutional learning in the 21st century and concerns for our sustainability in a fragile world, Ecologies for Learning and Practice is an essential guide for all who seek to encourage and facilitate learning in a world that is fundamentally ecological in nature.

Key Concepts in Curriculum Studies

Key Concepts in Curriculum Studies
Author: Judy Wearing
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2019-07-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351167065

Offering an accessible entry into curriculum theory, this book defines and contextualizes key concepts for novice and experienced students. Leading scholars in curriculum studies provide short anchor texts that introduce, define, and situate contemporary curriculum theory constructs. Each anchor text is followed by two concise, creative keyword responses that demonstrate varied perspectives and connections, allowing readers to reflect on and engage with the personal relevance of these fundamental concepts. Useful to instructors and scholars alike, this book explains keyword writing as a teaching and learning strategy and invites readers to enter the complicated conversations of contemporary curriculum theory through their own creative, personal responses. Featuring wide-ranging, nuanced, and varied commentary on major relevant themes, as well as discussion questions for students, this book is an essential text for doctoral and masters-level courses in curriculum studies.

Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum

Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum
Author: Simon Beames
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2023-09-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000932494

Following the acclaim for Learning Outside the Classroom in 2012, this latest book more deeply explains how well constructed outdoor learning experiences can benefit children and young people’s academic development and health and wellbeing. Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum outlines the theory and practice to enable preservice and experienced primary and secondary school teachers to systematically incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities, in a range of environments and with diverse groups of students. Six of the chapters are substantially re-worked versions of the 2012 book, two are completely re-imagined, and four are entirely new. Topics for developing learning and teaching outdoors include: Inclusive educational design Learning for sustainability Community-based learning The role of student curiosity and wonder Evidencing learning Developing a whole school approach Place-responsive education Integrating digital technology With practical and engaging chapters containing aims, case studies, and guidelines for practice, this timely book provides teachers the tools with which they can integrate outdoor learning into their daily timetable. It will also be a valuable resource to other professions which use the outdoors for educational purposes.

Arts Education and Curriculum Studies

Arts Education and Curriculum Studies
Author: Mindy R. Carter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1315466996

Highlighting Rita L. Irwin’s significant work in the fields of curriculum studies and arts education, this collection honors her well-known contribution of a/r/tography to curriculum studies in the form of arts based educational research and, beyond this, her contributions towards understanding the inseparability of making, knowing, and being. Together the chapters document an important beginning, as well as an ongoing transitional time in which curriculum understood as aesthetic text is awakening to the ways in which art practices stimulate a social awareness at the level of other embodied practices. Organized in three themes, gathering, transforming, and becoming, this volume brings together a selection of Irwin’s single and co-authored essays to offer a variety of rich perspectives to scholars and students in the field of education who are interested in the ways in which arts-based research allows the possibilities of bringing together the artistic, pedagogical, and scholarly selves of an educator.

Understanding Curriculum

Understanding Curriculum
Author: William F. Pinar
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 1170
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820426013

Perhaps not since Ralph Tyler's (1949) Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction has a book communicated the field as completely as Understanding Curriculum. From historical discourses to breaking developments in feminist, poststructuralist, and racial theory, including chapters on political theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, theology, international developments, and a lengthy chapter on institutional concerns, the American curriculum field is here. It will be an indispensable textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses alike.