AAEE 20th Biennial Conference
Southern Cross University, Gold Coast
21 - 25 October 2018

Research Symposium
Please note the Research Symposium is not included as part of your Conference ticket.
You must purchase a separate ticket for this event

SUNDAY 21 OCTOBER 2018
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9:00

15:00

Registration Open - Building C

9:30

9:40

Building C, Level 5 - Room C5.16 & C5.17
Welcome, acknowledgement of country, and introduction

9:40

10:40

A 50 Year Retrospective on Environmental Education Inquiry: Recognizing the past and challenging the future
Bob Stevenson, Paul Hart, Hilary Whitehouse & Jo-Anne Ferreira
Discussant: Alan Reid

10:40

11:00

Morning Tea
Building C, Level 5 Foyer
Building C, Level 5- Room C5.19

11:00

12:30

12:30

13:30

Building capacity in research: publishingpossibilities and priorities
Alan Reid & Jo-Anne Ferreira

15:00

15:00

15:30

15:30

16:30

17:00

19:00

Building C, Level 5- Room C5.16/ C5.17

Modelling Collaboration While Building
Entanglements of Matter and Meaning - theCapacity In Research
importance of the philosophy of Karen
Peta White, Sally Birdsall & Marianne
Barad for environmental education
Logan
Lisa Siegel, Simone Blom, Shae BrownLunch Break
Building C, Level 5 Foyer

Building C, Level 5- Room C5.19

13:30

Building C, Level 5- Room C5.14/ C5.15

PhD and ECR Open Space

Building C, Level 5- Room C5.14/ C5.15
Strategies for evaluating and researchingenvironmental education: examples andchallenges
Alan Reid, Ben Liu & Lena Jungbluth

Building C, Level 5- Room C5.16/ C5.17
Creating research capacity: The Early
Childhood EfS Transnational Dialogues
Julie Davis, Ärlemalm-Hagsér, Sule
Alici, Sherridan Emery

Afternoon Tea
Building C, Level 5 Foyer
Post-Panel/s - Working our way forwards.
Host: Allen Hill,with panellists Karen Malone, Hilary Whitehouse, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Lisa Ryan, Lisa Siegel
Building A, Level 4Welcome Reception

AAEE 20th Biennial Conference
Southern Cross University, Gold Coast
21 - 25 October 2018

Conference Program
MONDAY 22 OCTOBER 2018
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8:00

17:00

Registration Open
Building C, Room 1.05

8:30

9:30

Conference Opening
Professor Nan Bahr - Acting Vice Chancellor Welcome

9:30

10:30

Erica McWilliam - Advocacy in the Age of Anger
Chairperson: Paul Hemphill

10:30

11:00

Morning Tea
Building C, Level 5 and 6 FoyersConcurrent Session 1
Breakout Room: C6.14
Research Papers

11:00

11:20

Breakout Room: C6.15
Research Papers

Chairperson: Dr John Rafferty

Chairperson: Sue Martin

11:20

119: Behaviours: Evoking Selfreflection And Transformative
Learning
Emilia De La Sienra

109: Choreography In Dance
Education As Embodied Activism
Peter Cook

11:40

60: Starting With The Students:
Generating An Understanding Of
Informal Learning For Sustainability
At Higher Education Institutes
Through Student Experience.
Anastasia Gramatakos

59: Performance-based
Environmental Learning: WhatMakes The Difference?
Sally Birdsall

68: Teaching Sustainability As A
Creative Writing Scholar: A
Reflection On Developing
Sustainability Literacy Through Coteaching
Raelke Grimmer
10: Utilizing Social Media To Create
99: Talanoa – A Teaching AndCapacity For Change In Teacher
Learning Pedagogy For Climate
Professional Learning In
Change Education In Tonga
Environmental Education'Elisapesi Havea
Fariba Mostafa
32: Working Towards A Waste Free 62: Earthsmarting. Six years after theend of the Earth Smart program,
Future – Educating Through Our
Own Learning.
what impacts persist in Queensland
Katherine Gaschk, Catherineschools?
Zela Bissett
Baudains
71: Environmentally Conscious
Teachers' Stories Of Community
28: Titutjara Ngaranytjaku: So that it
Collaboration: Wisdom,
is always there
Guidance and encouragement For
Struggling for Sustainability in thePractising Educators And Community
RemotePartners
Julie Beer
Maia Osborn

Breakout Room: C6.16
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.14/5.15
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.16/5.17
Workshops

46: Why Frogs Count?
Karen Player

101: Ausmap: A National Citizen
Science Program For Mapping
Microplastics
Michelle Blewitt

48: Mobile Connections: Taking
action on complex environmental
issues in the classroom andcommunity.
Larissa Shashkof

55: All Creatures, Brown And Ugly
Melanie Treweek

49: Sea Change: A Board Game For
Delivering Coastal Education In TheClassroom!
Maggie Muurmans

50: Right From The Start! A Guide
To Planning Your Best PracticeSustainability Education &Engagement Project
Erika Van Schellebeck, Sue Martin

57: Nannagogy: Social movement
Learning Meets Older Woman EcoActivism Transiioning to Low-carbon
Economies
Larraine Larri

11:40

12:00

12:00

12:20

12:20

12:40

12:40

13:00

13:00

14:00

Lunch
Building A, Level 4

14:00

14:30

Showcase Session - Richard Wylie: Photography, and the Art of Marine and Coastal Education
Building C, Room 5.14/5.15
Concurrent Session 2
Breakout Room: C6.14
Research Papers

Breakout Room: C6.15
Research Papers

Chairperson: Chris Eames

Chairperson: Birut Zemits

14:50

96: The Role Of Education Outside
The Classroom (Eotc) In
Environmental And Sustainability
Education: Reflections From A
National Study In Aotearoa New
Zealand Schools
Allen Hill

31: The National Waterbug Blitz:
Australia's Waterways Under The
Magnifying Glass Through Citizen
Science
Ingrid Garland

14:50

15:10

112: Species Hotels And Ecological
93: The Wat- A- Game As A Tool For
Furniture: School Engagement In A
Environmental Education
Biodiversity Hotspot
Claudia Benham
Nel Smit

15:10

15:30

15:30

16:00

14:30

41: Joining The Dots On Climate
Adaptation Chris Hall

Breakout Room: C6.16
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.14/5.15
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.16/5.17
Workshops

78: Sustainability And Curriculum
Integration Kick Starting A Stalled
Idea
Graeme Sawyer

25: Navigating Emotional Responses
To Ecological Crises
Blanche Verlie

21: Curriculum Design For
Sustainability
Nicola Forrest

Breakout Room: C5.14/5.15
Peer Learning

Breakout Room: C5.16/5.17
Peer Learning

27: From Onlooker To Accomplice:
Evolving The 'Shift' To A Postmetaphysical World
Julie Beer

7: Classroom Sequences Promoting
Socioscientific Sustainability Inquiry
Peta White, Russell Tytler

103: Feast (Food Education AndSustainability Training) Program
Amelia Berner
Afternoon Tea
Building C, Level 5 and 6 Foyers
Peer Learning

Breakout Room: C6.14
Peer Learning

16:00

16:30

16:30

17:00

Breakout Room: C6.15
Peer Learning

Breakout Room: C6.16
Peer Learning

92: Remembering That They Are
56: Challenges And Possibilities In
18: How Deeply Have You
Nature: Stories From 10 Years Of A
Ecefs: International, National And
Embedded The Aboriginal Cross
Small Town Australian Environmental
Local Perspectives.
Curriculum Priority In Your School?
Youth Group
Lisa Sonter, Lyndal O'Gorman
Elaine Lewis
Lisa Siegel, Andrew Turbill

AAEE 20th Biennial Conference
Southern Cross University, Gold Coast
21 - 25 October 2018

TUESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2018
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8:00

17:00

Registration Open
Building C, Room 1.05

8:30

9:15

9:15

10:00

10:00

10:30

KeynoteChris McGrath - Use Whatever Imperfect Tools You Have To Fight For Solutions
James Whelan - Building civil society capacity for change

Chairperson: Hilary Whitehouse
Morning Tea
Building C, Level 5 and 6 FoyersConcurrent Session 3
Breakout Room: C6.14
Research Papers

Breakout Room: C6.16
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.14/5.15
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.16/5.17
Workshops

30: Learning Sustainability From
Traditional Knowledge
Graeme Sawyer

8: Using Research In Your PracticePeta White

91: What Works? Environmental
Activities For The PrimaryClassroom
Will Johnston

Chairperson: Mark Caddey

10:30

10:50

5: Interdisciplinary Approaches In
Esd: Researching Professional
Development For Early Childhood
Teachers In Turkey In Esd ThroughCritical Media Literacy
Sule Alici
84: Narratives And Cultural
Processes Of A Community:Relationships With Sustainability
Fernanda Freitas Rezende

10:50

11:10

11:10

11:30

120: A Review Of Literature On The
Impact Of Sustainability Pedagogies
In Teacher Education
Neus (Snowy) Evans

11:30

11:50

76: A "Good Life": Interpretations Of
Sustainability
Kim Beasy

11:50

12:10

113: Energy Wise And The Zayed
Prize
Nel Smit

12:10

12:30

80: Eco Champions: An Integrated
Approach To Whole Community
Leadership For Sustainability
Patricia Armstrong

12:30

13:30

35: Engaging School Communities In
6: Contributing To A Shared Position
Conservation: How Do You Solve A
Peta White, Sally Birdsall, Fabian
Problem Like Marine Debris?
SackHilary Hughes

79: S.e.e.d Questions
Jorja Mckinnon

Lunch & Poster Sessions
Building A, Level 4
Concurrent Session 4
Breakout Room: C6.14
Research Papers

Breakout Room: C6.15
Workshops

Breakout Room: C6.16
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.14/5.15
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.16/5.17
Peer Learning

Chairperson: Lisa Siegel
13:30

13:50

26: Encountering, Witnessing And
Storying Climate Change:
Posthuman Pedagogy In PracticeBlanche Verlie

13:50

14:10

82: The Emergence Of Adolescent
Leaders For Sustainability
Patricia Armstrong

14:10

14:3072: Learning With/in/as Community A Socioecological Learning View
Maia Osborn, Simone Blom, Helen
Widdop-Quinton, Claudio Aguayo

14:30

14:50

47: 20 Years Of The Sa YouthEnvironment Council- Exploring The
Long Term Impacts Of An Efs
Approach
Pia Siska

14:50

15:10

100: Taking An Eco-stance To
Learning
Roxanne Finn

15:10

15:30

15:30

16:00

73: In Practice: Educating Kids To
Care About Climate Change
Jacqueline Murray

51: School Carbon Reduction And
Climate Change Programs In The
Adelaide And Mt Lofty Ranges
Cally Malone, Paige Le Cornu

52: The Art Of Sustainability:
124: Use Whatever Imperfect Tools
Unlocking Children’s Full Potential
You Have to Fight for Solutions
Through Dance, Music And Theatre
Chris McGrathSusan Jones

97: Inspiring Students ThroughProject Based Learning That Is
Literally Out Of This WorldAngela Colliver

121: Building civil society capacity
for change
James Whelan

98: Creating Capacity ThroughCross-sector Partnerships WithSchools
Kylie Yule Moses

85: Touchstones For
Deterritorializing Socioecological
Learning: The Anthropocene,
Posthumanism And Commonworlds
As Creative Milieux
Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Marianne
Logan, Maia Osborn, Simone
Miranda Blom, Helen Widdop
Quinton

Afternoon Tea
Building C, Level 5 and 6 Foyers
Peer Learning

16:00

Breakout Room: C6.14
Peer Learning

Breakout Room: C6.15
Peer Learning

Breakout Room: C6.16
Peer Learning

44: Educator Experiences Of
Actualising Mission Within
Environmental Organisations
Ben Liu

36: Gremlins Grabbing Gourds InGardens: Negotiating Public Access
And Ideology In A Community Space
Birut Zemits

19: How Young Children's Voices
Have Been Included In Early
Childhood Education For
Sustainability
Mia Christensen

16:30

16:30

17:00

17:00

18:00

AAEE Association AGM
Building C, Level 5, Room 5.14/5.15

Breakout Room: C5.14/5.15
Peer Learning

Breakout Room: C5.16/5.17
Peer Learning

58: Merchants Of Doubt: How A
65: Imagining Sustainability With Handful Of Scientists Obscured The
Adults - Challenges And Possibilities
Truth On Issues From Tobacco
Blanche Verlie, Kim Beasy,
Smoke To Global Warming (Oreskes
And Conway, 2010) And Implications
Sherridan Emery, Matthew
For Environmental Educators
Marchesi
Larraine LarriAAEE 20th Biennial Conference
Southern Cross University, Gold Coast
21 - 25 October 2018

WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER 2018
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8:30

17:00

Registration Open
Building C, Room 1.058:30

KeynoteMelanie Parker - Policy Push – How Environmental Literacy Policy Moved the Landscape

9:15

9:15

9:45

9:45

10:00

10:00

10:30

Wild Mob Youth Ambassdors
GBRMPA - Link to Great Barrier Reef

Chairperson: Kalindi Brennan
Morning Tea
Building C, Level 5 and 6 Foyers
Concurrent Session 5
Breakout Room: C6.14
Research Papers

Breakout Room: C6.15
Workshops

Breakout Room: C6.16
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.14/5.15
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.16/5.17
Workshops / Research Papers

Chairperson: Allen Hill
20: Winning Beats Learning:
Environmental Education InIndonesian Senior High Schools
Kelsie Prabawa-Sear

10:30

10:50

10:50

11:10

42: How The Transnational Dialogues 95: Gronative: The Successful Use
Process Is Building Capacity For
Of Apps For Positive Environmental
Change In Ecefs Research
ChangeSherridan Emery, Julie Davis,
Mark Nadir Runkovski, Kieran
Lyndal O’gorman
Richardt

11:10

11:30

63: Inexpensive and Effective
environmental education practices inJapan: A report from Atsugi City:
Let's move reality
Hiroshi Takada

11:30

11:50

37: An International Perspective On
Sustainable Schools
Fernanda Rezende, Peta White

11:50

12:10

108: Leading For The Earth:Introducing Ecocentric LeadershipMark Manolopoulos

12:10

12:30

29: Monitoring The Development Of
Students’ Critical Thinking Skills In
Sustainability Education
Sally Birdsall

13:00

14:00

Lunch
Food Trucks, SCU carpark

14:00

14:30

Showcase Session - Beau Frigault - Drs For the Environment
Building C, Room 5.14/5.15

43: Resourcesmart Schools - 10
74: Inspiring Champions For The Bay
15: Education For What? A Greater
Years With Sustainability
Through Stem
Moral Imperative.
Victoria. lessons For Other States OnDianne Aylward
Nicola Forrest
Creating Capacity For ChangeCyrelle Field, Simon Hum83: The Big Scrub Rainforest: Young
People's Voice In The Anthropocene
Marianne Logan, Simone MirandaBlom
64: Embedding Mixed Reality Digital 90: Integrated Learning – Innovative
Learning In And Out Of School
Pedagogy For Cross-curricula Inquiry
Claudio Aguayo, Chris Eames
Kalindi Brennan

53: Positive Behaviour Change
Through Environmental Education
Nick Carson

Concurrent Session 6
Breakout Room: C6.14
Research Papers

Breakout Room: C6.16
Workshops

Breakout Room: C5.14/5.15
Peer Learning

Breakout Room: C5.16/5.17
Workshops

89: Environmental Un-education:
Valuing Our Inner Wisdom
Simone Miranda Blom

61: Connecting People To Planet
Through Eco-literacy
Isobel Harper

9: Nature Explorers - Igniting Children's
Learning Naturally
Sofia Machado, Cassy Reed

Chairperson: Snowy Evans
14:30

14:50

94: Distinctive Pedagogies Of Place:
Stories Of Embodiment And Contest
Across TimePeter Renshaw, Ron Tooth

14:50

15:10

34: Designing Mobile Learning In
Education Outside The Classroom To
Enhance Marine Ecological Literacy
Chris Eames, Claudio Aguayo

15:10

15:30

69: Making Meaning: Academic
Discourses Of Sustainability WithUniversity Students.
Matthew Marchesi

15:30

16:00

Afternoon Tea
Building C, Level 5 and 6 Foyers
Peer Learning

16:00

Breakout Room: C6.14
Peer Learning

Breakout Room: C6.16
Peer Learning

Breakout Room: C5.14/5.15
Peer Learning

Breakout Room: C5.16/5.17
Peer Learning

107: Embracing Nature In The Postholocene
Andrew Turbill

38: Latitude 24 – An Example Of
International Cooperation In
Environmental Education
David Kopelke, Shih-Tsen Liu

14: Invisible Women: Seeking
Changes In Education And
Environment Policies From An
Ecofeminist Perspective
Annette Gough, Hilary Whitehouse

17: Science Sense-ations: Engaging
With The Community
Elaine Lewis, Katherine Gaschk

16:30

16:30

17:00

19:0023:00

CURRUMBIN RSL
Conference Dinner