Booking link coming soon - Please register your early interest to this popular and insightful workshop by sending a brief email to aaeeact@gmail.com
When: Term 2 or Term 3, date TBA, 4:00 – 6:30pm
Where: The Crosbie Morrison Room TBC, Australian National Botanical Gardens
Who: The session will be co-run by University of Canberra PhD student Monty Nixon.
Event Information:
For many Indigenous people of Australia, indeed across the globe, Country is and has always been the central knowledge-holder.
For Millennia, direct learning with Country taught people how to live in relational reciprocity, seeding social and ecological harmony and balance.
This workshop invites you to consider the pedagogic opportunities of reinvigorating a way of knowing, being and doing in the teaching and learning of Environmental Education that honours this old wisdom.
In the workshop, we will explore the foundational understanding of a Country as Teacher pedagogy, based on Senior Custodian for Karulkiyalu Country, Damu (Grandfather) Paul Gordon’s re-interpretation of an old way of learning, the 6L’s: Lore, Love, Look & Listen, Learn and Lead, an insight into the growing body of research into the enactment of this approach in schools and how to cultivate a Relating with Country Practice.
A Country as Teacher pedagogy offers all Australians an authentic opportunity to decolonise educational practices and promote a greater understanding of and care for the place in which we live.
More information about Country as Teacher can be found at this website: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/csc/transformational-pedagogies/country-as-teacher
This workshop was extremely popular when offered twice before and spots in 2026 Term 2 will fill up quickly. Register early and note that priority will given to school teachers and AAEE members.
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