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THE PDTCA BOARD HOPES YOU HAVE AN AMAZING CONVENTION! #PDTC23! 

CALGARY TELUS CONVENTION CENTRE(CTCC) and HYATT - address and driving directions

President Schilling’s 2023 Convention Greeting Link

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*****SESSION EVALUATIONS WILL CLOSE FRIDAY MARCH 3rd*****

Thursday, February 23 • 2:45pm - 4:00pm
Student Voice Leading Change: A Review of the Slow Pedagogy of Place and Nature Journaling Literature

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The silencing and compliance narratives that have been normalized during Covid should alert educators that developing student values, dispositions and behaviours is no longer enough to equip students as leaders of change. Students need to be communicatively emboldened to speak up and out from those values. This session argues that the convergence of slow pedagogies, place-based pedagogies and a sustained nature journaling practice offers an approach to developing student voice with leadership reach and impact that can ignite movements of change. Ideas for how educators can build student voice capacity from current literature as well as classroom evidence will be shared.

Speakers
BC

Barbara Calabrese

Barbara Calabrese is an elementary teacher with the Foothills School Division. This presentation arises from a literature review she conducted as a MEd capstone project for the University of Calgary’s Werklund School of Education. Her research interests focus on how place-based... Read More →


Thursday February 23, 2023 2:45pm - 4:00pm MST
Glen 208 CTCC
  Educational Research (TQS/LQS 2), Div1 (Gr 1-3), Div2 (Gr 4-6)