All sessions are live and interactive,
and recordings will be available after,
so you won’t miss a thing.
Times listed are AEST and are held online.
‘Spotlight on Research’ Symposium | Friday 1 August | 9am-4pm AEST (Details and program here)
Strengthen | Tuesday 5 August
Collaborate | Wednesday 13 August
Advocate | Thursday 21 August
Online Host:
Centre for Regenerating Futures, Deakin University
Online Host:
SEAE Research Centre, Southern Cross University
Online Host:
School of Education, Curtin University
Opening 11am – 12.30pm
Opening 11am – 12.30pm
Opening 11am – 12.30pm
Welcome & Acknowledgement:
Dr Lisa Siegel – AAEE National President
Host Intro:
Associate Professor Peta White
Keynote:
Professor Anne Poelina and Dr Marlikka Perdrisat or Dr Emily Poelina
Welcome & Acknowledgment:
Dr Lisa Siegel – AAEE National President
Host Intro:
Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles
Keynote:
Damon Gameau – Future Council
Welcome & Acknowledgment:
Dr Lisa Siegel – AAEE National President
Host Intro:
Associate Professor Sonja Kuzich
Keynote:
Bella Poll and Troy Wood – Agents of Climate Change
Break 12.30 – 12.40pm
Break 12.30 – 12.40pm
Break 12.30 – 12.40pm
Concurrent sessions 12.40 – 1.40pm
Concurrent sessions 12.40 – 1.40pm
Concurrent sessions 12.40 – 1.40pm
Stream One – Symposium:
Enacting Climate Change Education
Peta White et al.
Stream One – Symposium:
Lessons from Countries’ Efforts in Climate Communication and Education
Aaron Redman et al.
Stream One – 60min Workshop:
Time to Act: The Art and Science of Climate Change Education
Danielle Hradsky
Stream Two – Short Presentations:
Embedding Sustainability within the Curriculum.
Kimberlee Chipper
Nature Stewards – CEE & collaboration in action! Andrew Keast
Embedding deeper sustainability in early learning services and beyond.
Sabrina Metter
Stream Two – Short Presentations:
The Heat Is On – a game to envision thriving futures in a climate changed world.
Kim Beasy
From awareness to action: Carbon Literacy for educators
Rhiannon Boyd
How to Teach Sustainability and Keep it Positive!
Lizzy Nash
Stream Two – Short Presentations:
Waste Not, Learn A Lot: Circular Economy in Schools.
Tom Linnell
Performing Sustainability: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Indonesia’s Adiwiyata Environmental Education Policy.
Siti Aisyah
Changing food waste behaviour at school and home
Hollie Kempton
Stream Three – Short Presentations:
Experiencing kincentric ecologies through ontopoetic inquiry with rivers’.
Louise Whitaker, Philipa Duthrie, Corinne Henry, Ann Knight, Anne Le Mee, Freya Matthews, Christiana Schumacher & Sandra Wooltorton
Tuvalu climate [im] mobility and empowerment.
Fumiko Noguchi
Responsible consumption: Pre- Service Teachers’ beliefs and values
Chris Eames
Stream Three – 30min Workshops:
Hot composting for everyone!
Jeff McClintock
Soils for Science – Life Rocks with Healthy Earth!
Diana Gentu
Stream Three – Short Presentations:
Climate Crisis Education here and now: How to do it in a policy vacuum!
Dr Larraine J Larri
Problem-Based Learning in Environmental Education: A Systematic Review of Progress and Gaps.
Elizabeth Biney
Sustainability in Practice: Analysing Policy Implementation in Indonesia’s Secondary Education.
Adella Anfidina Putri
Community Meeting Room 1.40pm
Community Meeting Room 1.40pm
Community Meeting Room 1.40pm
Lunch 2 – 2.30pm
Lunch 2 – 2.30pm
Lunch 2 – 2.30pm
Panel Discussions 2.30 – 3.30pm
Panel Discussions 2.30 – 3.30pm
Panel Discussions 2.30 – 3.30pm
Topic: Commitment to Justice/Equity/Diversity/Inclusivity in environmental education.
Host: TBC
Panellists: Kara Virick, Ceridwen MacLennan, Alicia Flynn, 1x TBC
Topic: Relationship to land and place through environmental education.
Host: TBC
Panellists: Uncle Michael Jarrett, Tanya Mottl, Julia Barnes
Topic: Connection between EE and advocacy/agency/activism.
Host: Grace Vegesana (AYCC)
Panellists: Dr Larraine J Larri, 2xTBC
Afternoon Tea 3.30pm
Afternoon Tea 3.30pm
Afternoon Tea 3.30pm
Concurrent sessions 3.40 – 4.40pm
Concurrent sessions 3.40 – 4.40pm
Concurrent sessions 3.40 – 4.40pm
Stream One – 60min Workshop:
Co-designing Australia’s Climate Change Education Strategy.
Peta White
Stream One – Symposium:
Nature Journaling
Julia Landford, Cerae Mitchell and Robyn Fox
Stream One – 60min Workshop:
Holding Space, Holding Complexity: Supporting our climate emotions in education.
Beth Hill
Stream Two – Short Presentations:
Heat Literacy – An emerging educational concept in an ever- warming world.
Prof. Hilary Whitehouse
Engaging with Nature through Technology: Environmental Education with Augmented Reality. Sienna Harris
Using generative AI to support future- focused scientific literacy in the primary classroom.
Amy Strachan
Stream Two – 30min Workshops:
We, Work, World – Being Change in our World.
John Blake
Activating Collaborative Action through IDGs, SDGs and Experiential Learning.
Tanya Mottl & Wendy Harper
Stream Two – Short Presentations:
Games that Encourage Stillness & Comfort in Nature.
Trudi Bennett
Sacred Earth, Sustainable Futures: First Nations Climate Playhouse.
Sally Giblin and Bronwyn Cochrane
Intercultural arts- based sustainability learning through ‘Nongkrong’.
Sonja Kuzich, Paul Gardner, Carol Carter and Susi Fitriani
Stream Three – Short Presentations:
Frame, Spiral, Hourglass: Engagements in a cross-border environmental photovoice project.
Michael Chew
Nature play and art: Foundations for ecology.
Freya Wibberley
Ecological Storytelling : Cultivating Ecological Citizens in Early Childhood.
Narell Neville & Jennifer McCormack
Stream Three – Short Presentations:
An Exploration of Action-based Storytelling.
Rosamund Portus
A new toolkit for environmental education.
Sara- Jayne Williams
Orientating Education for Socially Transformative Resilience in Times of Environmental Uncertainty.
Belinda Davis
Stream Three – Short Presentations:
Use your imagination: Transformational online learning for environmental education.
Angela Brown
Secondary school teachers’ climate justice stories.
Eve Mayes, Alicia Flynn, Natasha Abhayawickrama, Sophie Chiew, Netta Maiava, Dani Villafaña
The Eco-Schools Program and Its Contribution to Student Environmental and Sustainability Learning
Harriet Deans
Community Discussions – 4.40 – 5pm
Community Discussions – 4.40 – 5pm
Community Discussions – 4.40 – 5pm
Climate Change Education Strategy
Voices of the Waters
(with Alexis Farr and Liz Hickman)
Chapters and Affinity Groups



NB. Program may be subject to change.