Ecological Place-Based Education For All
Facilitators: Dr. Lee Beavington and KPU Wild Spaces
Ready to take your teaching and learning outdoors? Curious about place-based education? Wondering how your work at KPU could fit into this practice? Join our Community of Practice, open to faculty, staff and students. Learn how to facilitate ecological place-based education remotely. Cultivate clear intentions and a reciprocity lens to learning on and with the land. Explore place-based learning ideas at multiple campuses, including Richmond (KPU Farm), Langley (Logan Creek) and Surrey (Westerman property and nearby Cougar Creek).
Open to any discipline at KPU. If you’re connected to chemistry or creative writing, counseling or career services, the learning centres or the learning commons, you are most welcome. Also open to folks who are unfamiliar with place-based learning. Join a team of passionate educators and students for this experiential, learner-centered Community of Practice.
Meeting Dates
Six sessions, starting with synchronous online and moving to entirely outdoors by the third session.
- Online (Zoom) - June 1, 2023 .12:00-1:30PM
Agreements/guidelines for our Community of Practice. What is PBE? How can it be done remotely? - Online/in-person - July 13, 2023, 12:00-1:30PM
Truth and intentionality. What are we bringing to PBE? How can it connect to our own disciplines and/or practices? - On-campus at KPU Surrey - August 3, 2023, 12:00-2:00PM
Learning on, from and with the land. Nature as co-teacher and reciprocity. - KPU Farm - September 14, 2023, 12:00-2:00PM
Ecological PBE at the KPU Farm (KPU Richmond), with Sustainable Agriculture - Logan Creek - September 28, 2023, 12:00-2:00PM
Ecological PBE at Logan Creek (KPU Langley), with EPT/Horticulture - Cougar Creek Park - October 12 or 19, 2023, 12:00-2:00PM
Ecological PBE at Cougar Creek (near KPU Surrey), possible spawning salmon. Closing sharing.
How to join this group
If you are interested in joining, please email lee.beavington@kpu.ca. (Students are welcome to join as well.)