The Learning Environment as the Third Teacher

When

8 Jun 2018 - 9 Jun 2018
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Asia/Singapore

Where

Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise (exact venue to be advised), QLD

Event Tag

The Learning Environment as the Third Teacher workshop aims to explore and give value to the conceptual and physical spaces and places that children, parents and teachers inhabit and spend daily together. The focus of the workshop will offer the participants an opportunity to reflect upon their present environment as a space and place of learning and broaden understandings on the meaning of environment as an evolving space specific to each learner’s context.

Objectives
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Analyze how the Environment can act as the Third Teacher
  • Deconstruct and reconstruct understandings on the meaning of environment
  • Actively engage with a community of learners to co-construct an environment that is harmonious and respectful of all inhabitants/participants

Outline
Day 1:  Unpacking our understandings on environment

  • Introducing ourselves as a community of learners
  • Physical environment
  • Conceptual environment
  • Co-creating values we attribute to constructing a harmonious and respectful environment

Day 2: Environment as an evolving space

  • Collaborative reflection upon the co-creation of values from Day 1
  • Contextualizing values specific to each learner’s environment
  • What does it mean to construct an environment with sensitivity towards listening and observation?
  • Making projections of a harmonious and respectful environment specific to each learner’s context

Trainer’s Profile
Dr. Junko C. earned her BA from Sophia University, Tokyo and her MA in Education from Michigan State University, USA. She received her EdD (Doctorate of Education) from the University of Bath, UK. She continues her research into how children learn from a socioconstructive perspective. Dr. Junko has been in the field of early childhood education within an international school context for almost 40 years.  This international context flows easily within her as she has lived and learned overseas across different cultures from an early age. From this experience, she appreciates how having roots deeply in one’s own
culture helps to understand the culture and thinking of others. On the back of her extensive career working directly with people – both children and adults –she has presented and consulted for numerous organizations and has accredited key educational institutions globally.  She continues to advocate the importance of building from the foundation of what is fundamentally important and necessary, that of people and the relationships within. With children as her inspiration, Dr. Junko’s long-term study of the Reggio philosophy puts theory and practice in contexts across many fields and genres. She believes that reflection and interpretation as on-going experiences generate fresh outlooks and learning to reframe ‘words’ and ‘worlds’ for both children and adults.

Methodology
This workshop combines presentation, small group work and collaborative hands-on learning experiences. Participants will have the opportunity to be engaged, interact and collaborate with colleagues to construct understandings how the environment can evolve into spaces that act as the third teacher which can be applied into each learner’s context.

Target Audience
Early Childhood Educators and administrators of children aged 3-8, Elementary Teachers

Investment 
AUD800.00/pax
AUD700.00/pax if register by 1 Jan 18
  
Other Details
Duration: 2 days, 12 hours
Closing Date:  1 Mar 18



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