Do we have to go outside? Millenial pre-service teachers discovering nature, creativity and self confidence
Presentation
Paper/Presentation Title | Do we have to go outside? Millenial pre-service teachers discovering nature, creativity and self confidence |
---|---|
Presentation Type | Presentation |
Authors | |
Author | Jones, Janice K. |
Editors | Webster, Beverley |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of an International Conference: Enhancing Learning Experiences in Higher Education (CETL 2010) |
Year | 2010 |
Place of Publication | Hong Kong |
Conference/Event | CETL 2010: Enhancing Learning Experiences in Higher Education |
Event Details | CETL 2010: Enhancing Learning Experiences in Higher Education Event Date 02 to end of 03 Dec 2010 Event Location Pok Fu Lam, China Event Venue University of Hong Kong |
Abstract | Creativity and sustainability are listed indicators for global survival, competitiveness and lifelong learning in Australian national statements for a quality 21st century education. This paper considers findings from the first year of a 7 year study into pre-service teacher confidence and awareness of their personal creativity. It considers also the impact of students' immersion experience in a Japanese Garden during the first year of their university experience. Data emerging from the study indicates a significant gap between pre-service teachers' confidence in their personal creativity, and their valorisation of creativity for teaching and learning. It also indicates that millennial pre-service teachers' experience of the natural world is predominantly technology-mediated, rather than first hand. This paper considers the impact of students' experience in a natural environment, a Japanese Garden, upon their perceptions of creativity. The study has implications for the ways in which universities embed creativity and sustainability as graduate skills and attributes, in the context of the millennial student. These attributes are particularly important in the context of teacher education for sustainability, when future teachers may themselves suffer from the 'Nature Deficit Disorder' (Louv, 2010; O'Connor, 2010) that 21st century education seeks to address. |
Keywords | creativity; pre-service teacher education; nature; wellbeing; Nature Deficit Disorder; sustainability; teacher education; wellbeing; graduate skills |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520406. Sensory processes, perception and performance |
390307. Teacher education and professional development of educators | |
500304. Environmental philosophy | |
Public Notes | © 2010 Janice K. Jones. The author assigns to CETL, HKU the right to publish this document in full in the conference proceedings. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1988/do-we-have-to-go-outside-millenial-pre-service-teachers-discovering-nature-creativity-and-self-confidence
Download files
1682
total views111
total downloads0
views this month0
downloads this month