Peer to peer learning
We believe teachers are the experts in teaching. Our training facilitators have experience working with children in nature. They bring practical and pedagogical knowledge, and respect the knowledge you already have.
Our facilitators for the ECOLN training package are:
Our facilitators for the ECOLN training package are:
Karen Anderson |
Doug Fargher |
Karen Anderson is a kindergarten teacher with thirty six years experience teaching in a community pre-school. She has experience in early intervention with Yooralla. She has a strong passion for connecting children with the land and First Peoples cultures. Karen has been involved in the Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Network since 2012. She established the Learning and Living with Nature program at Balnarring pre-school (2011) and the Bundjil Nest Project (2015). She is a member of the World Forum Foundation Indigenous Peoples Action Group, and the current World Forum Global Leader for Children.
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Doug Fargher is the creator and founder of Bush Kinder in Australia. The ensuing nature kindergarten movement that has blossomed as a consequence sprang from many years of establishing, piloting and working with academics and government bodies to establish a robust and important Bush Kinder program. ‘Bush Kinder Doug’ as he has come to be known is an educational innovator. Doug remains a respected hands-on educator working at Westgarth Kindergarten and Bubup Wilam Aboriginal Child and Family Centre. As well as teaching he spends time consulting, running workshops, writing and speaking nationally about the benefits of play based learning in the bush.
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Lisa Coxon |
Rose Major |
Lisa Coxon has been involved with the Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Network since 2012. She is a passionate and committed teacher and educational leader with over 30 years of experience in early childhood education. She has led staff development and action research projects around several topics including inquiry-based learning, documentation of children's learning, flexible learning spaces and the environment as the third teacher and outdoor education across the preschool and junior primary school sectors.
After studying in Denmark's nature kindergartens, she developed a passion for providing children with opportunities to connect with the natural world, engage in risky play and develop their physical and emotional wellbeing. Together with the team at Woodleigh School, Lisa was instrumental in establishing nature-based programs for children in Early Learning – Year 2. (Established 2012) She is passionate about embedding First People's Cultures into her programs and committed to delivering a program that reflects the Australian context and the philosophy of Woodleigh School – Respect for Self, Respect for Others and Respect for the Environment. |
Rose Major has worked across the early years education sector, variously a kindergarten teacher, an early years of primary school teacher and a playgroup facilitator, creating and running outdoor programs for all age groups from birth to eight years old as part of her work. Rose is one of ECO Learning Network's training package facilitators and has also given online presentations for the Teacher Learning Network on the subjects of outdoor learning, and on the cross-over between early years and primary school.
Anthony Morris
Anthony Morris is an Early Childhood Educator at North Fitzroy Childcare Co-operative who has been teaching in inner-city Melbourne for over a decade. Anthony’s passion for nature was fostered during his own childhood family holiday adventures to the beach and bush and has inspired him to take the children he works with out into natural environments in inner city Melbourne. Anthony’s young family also spend much of their spare time in nature and the outdoors. |