"Making" Waves: How Young Learners Connect to Their Natural World through Third Space

Autor/inn/en	Burke, Anne; Crocker, Abigail
Titel	"Making" Waves: How Young Learners Connect to Their Natural World through Third Space
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 10 (2020), Artikel 203 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Conservation (Environment); Visual Aids; Shared Facilities; Shared Resources and Services; Early Childhood Education; Emotional Response; Values; After School Programs; Environmental Education; Young Children; Play; Foreign Countries; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Anschauungsmaterial; Gemeinschaftsküche; Gemeinwirtschaft; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Emotionales Verhalten; Wertbegriff; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Frühe Kindheit; Spiel; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	In a world that grows increasingly aware of ecological problems such as global warming, rising sea levels, and pollution, we need to reconsider how we connect ourselves to the natural world around us. In this paper, we view makerspaces as ideal locations to shape children's emotional, sociocultural, and educational consciousnesses about the environment and our multi-layered roles undertaken to live in, and conserve, it. We apply third space, makerspace, and relational value theories in the analysis of a research project conducted with children at an early childhood centre. This project invited children to discuss ocean conservation prompted by the picturebook Flotsam (2006) and create three-dimensional exhibits that express how they visualize ocean conservation. Our research shows that children develop strong emotional connections to tangible representations of conservation when they are given the time to invest in making them, and that these emotional connections are driving forces for relational values that create conservation-oriented mindsets. It also shows how important context is for shaping the ways children learn, and that providing opportunities to examine conservation through makerspaces as a third space encourages children to create empathetic and personal relationships with the natural world. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01