Engaging With Place: Playground Practices For Imaginative Educators

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Published: Jun 21, 2017
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place-based practices, Imaginative Education, Imaginative Ecological Education, place-making, walking curriculum, learning tool, natural world, relationality, biophilia, wonder.

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Gillian Judson
Simon Fraser University

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This article explores one aspect of a pedagogy called Imaginative Ecological Education (Judson, 2015, 2010). Interweaving reflection and practice, it focuses on the principle of “Place” and the process of place-making by describing some learning tools that all educators can employ to connect their students with the natural world. The article concludes with a few examples from a teaching resource called a “Walking Curriculum” that exemplify imagination-focused place-based practices.

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Judson, G. (2017). Engaging With Place: Playground Practices For Imaginative Educators. Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies, 1(2). Retrieved from https://journals.sfu.ca/jcp/index.php/jcp/article/view/21
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2017): Pedagogy and Place
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Author Biography

Gillian Judson, Simon Fraser University

I enjoy teaching, researching, writing in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, and also co-directing the Imaginative Education Research Group (http://ierg.ca). As an educational consultant I explore a range of topics including imaginative and ecological teaching practices, educational program design, educational change, and Museum Education. My main interest is the role of imagination in all learning and how all educators can routinely engage and inspire their students by tapping into this great learning tool. My blog #imaginED http://www.educationthatinspires.ca 

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