Just being outside doesn't always guarantee a connection to the natural world. An awareness of the environment needs to be embedded within the curriculum, and with climate change and sustainability being such important and urgent issues, this book is a timely and much needed resource for early years and primary educators.
Emphasizing the joy of planning, this book offers practical strategies and visual tools to enhance children's learning experiences. It encourages a child-led inquiry approach, particularly focusing on crafting with wood, including whittling and woodworking. The Floorbook® method promotes collaboration between educators and children, fostering a shared exploration of ideas. With blank pages for personal notes, it empowers readers to document their journey while instilling confidence in facilitating playful and meaningful learning.
Balancing administrative tasks with meaningful interactions with children can be challenging for educators. This book introduces child-led inquiries as a joyful solution, emphasizing the use of Floorbooks® for planning. It outlines how to create an emergent curriculum centered around children's interests in the wind, addressing the adult's role, children's understanding, risk assessment, and curriculum integration. Two approaches are explored: an integrated curriculum that fosters playfulness and a separate subject-focused method, both illustrated through practical case studies showcasing collaborative thinking among children.
Focussing on children aged from 2-11, this book centres on outstanding outdoor practice and how children can learn and develop in natural environments.
Exploring the experiences of early to mid-twentieth century British theatre-makers in Russia, this book imagines how these travellers interpreted Russian realism, symbolism, constructivism, agitprop, pageantry, dance or cinema. With some searching for an alternative to the corporate West End, some for experimental techniques and others still for methods that might politically inspire their audiences, did these journeys make any differences to their practice? And how did distinctly Russian techniques affect British theatre history? Migrating Modernist Performance seeks to answer these questions, reimagining the experiences and creative output of a range of, often under-researched, practitioners. What emerges is a dynamic collection of performances that bridge geographical, aesthetic, chronological and political divides.