Ann Pelo presents - A Sense of Wonder: Cultivating an Ecological Identity in Young Children

Date: Thursday 21st March 2024 - 9.30am - 3.30pm

After all anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear, anybody is as there is wind or no wind. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

Gertrude Stein, “Narration: Lecture 4” - Presented at the University of Chicago, 1935

Our places make us. To become as human as we can be, we must tune ourselves to the beyond-human world — to our places and to the many beings who live in place with us. We must cultivate in ourselves and in children, capacities for listening, for noticing, for marvelling, for grieving, for rejoicing.

During this session Ann will share simple daily practices you might take up with children to cultivate an ecological identity. These strategies will support educators to explore the local places where they live and work, deepen the connections and relationships they have with this place and enliven pedagogy driven by attention, curiosity and connection.

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

Standard 3: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.

National Quality Standard –

Quality Area 3: Physical environment

Quality Area 6: Collaborative partnerships with families and communities.

Presenter

Ann Pelo

Early childhood professionals are invited to attend a full day session with internationally renowned educator and thinker Ann Pelo.

Ann Pelo is a teacher educator, program consultant, and author whose primary work focuses on reflective pedagogical practice, social justice and ecological teaching and learning, and the art of mentoring. Her work is anchored by a commitment to the right of educators to be intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually engaged by their work. Ann’s offerings to educators are organized around invitations for action and reflection, inwardness and collaboration, and utilize the power of story to bring us into deeper understanding and new questions.