Locating the Educator in Outdoor Early Childhood Education

Autor/inn/en	Dawson, Kate; Beattie, Elizabeth
Titel	Locating the Educator in Outdoor Early Childhood Education
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 34 (2018) 2, S.127-142 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
Schlagwörter	Teacher Role; Outdoor Education; Early Childhood Education; Preschool Teachers; Preschool Children; Place Based Education; Educational Practices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerrolle; Freiluftunterricht; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Bildungspraxis
Abstract	We tell the story of an experience Kate Dawson, her students, and three eagles had at an outdoor preschool. The experience profoundly affected Kate, and prompted us to ask the following questions: What made this experience feel so magical, and what caused it to happen? Why are these "magical moments" valuable, and how might they impact our pedagogical practices? We posit that magical moments in outdoor early childhood education depend upon relational and "pathic" knowledge, and understanding of place, rather than intellectual or cognitive knowledge "about" place. We suggest conditions and practices educators may employ to foster magical moments, including slow ecopedagogy and embodied, sensory, and spiritual attunement to place. We consider our role as educators in the educator-students-place system, particularly when acknowledging that place is agentic, and acts as learner, knower and teacher. To understand place pedagogically, we must think of ourselves as learners and as the objects of learning, as much as thinking of ourselves as "knowers." This requires a pedagogy of embodied responsiveness and a surrender to place as teacher. Far from simplifying the work of the educator, living within a relationship of educator-students-place complexifies the practice of teaching. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01