Summary
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The Reception Year is a special time for children and their teachers. This text celebrates the uniqueness of the Reception Year and the unique role of the Reception Teacher. This is a book for those aspiring to be reception teachers, those new to teaching in reception and for those with a love for the reception year.
You as a Landscape Architect
You as a Landscape Architect
In this chapter we will begin to consider:
- what we mean by a Reception teacher's likeness to a ‘landscape architect’;
- how personal influences shape what we do in the outdoors;
- the historical and cultural context of outdoor learning and how this may influence our practice;
- current and contemporary ideas for the outdoors;
- the benefits of the outdoors to young children's holistic development;
- how these aspects then help us to design rich outdoor environments.
Introduction
Why you might ask have we used the heading ‘You as a landscape architect’? Well, if we look at the role description of a landscape architect we can begin to see many parallels to that of a Reception teacher. Landscape architects are described as ...
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