Centre for Excellence in Outdoor and Environmental Education
Staff Profile
Kathleen Pleasants
Associate Lecturer
Room/Location: Ironbark Centre, 2.13b
Ph: 5444 7801
Fx: 5444 7848
Email: k.pleasants@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications
- Master of Outdoor & Environmental Education (Latrobe University) 2008
- Graduate Diploma in Outdoor Education (Latrobe University) 1996
- Graduate Diploma in Education (Footscray Institute of Technology) 1989
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Footscray Institute of Technology) 1989
Teaching Areas
- Ways of Knowing Nature. Year 1, Unit co-ordinator
- Worldviews and the Environment, Year 1
- Education in the Outdoors, Year 3
- Teaching & Program Development, Year 3, Unit co-ordinator
- Outdoor Education Secondary Teaching Method (Faculty of Education)
Professional Involvement
- Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, VCE Outdoor and Environmental Studies Chief Examiner 2004 - 2008
- Victorian Outdoor Education Association. Council member 1999 - 2000
- VCE Outdoor and Environmental Studies review panel 2004
Research Interests
Recent research has focused on the purposes and roles of reviews of research within the field of outdoor education by reflecting on one example of this genre: A review of research on outdoor learning conducted by Rickinson, Dillon, Teamey, Morris, Choi, Sanders, and Benefield (2004).
Other areas of interest include the development of locally relevant curriculum, Australian environmental themes and representations within children's literature, and the explicit and implied meanings of the environmental education component of the VCE Outdoor and Environmental Studies study design and the proposed implications for practice from the perspectives of the review panel members.
Recent Publications and Presentations
Pleasants, K. (2007). A feral in our midst: Does Outdoor Environmental Education Need a Thneed? Paper presented at Sustaining our spirit of place. 15th National Outdoor Education Conference, 20-23 September 2007, Ballarat, Australia.
Pleasants, K. (2006). Does environmental education need a Thneed? Displacing The Lorax as environmental text. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 11, 179-194.
Pleasants, K. (2006). Attending to the disregarded: Challenging hegemonic discourse in Outdoor Education In Widening Horizons: Diversity in theoretical and critical views of outdoor education. Proceedings of the third International Outdoor Education Research Conference, 4 – 7 July 2006, University of Central Lancashire, Penrith, Cumbria, UK.
Black, J., Gough, A. & Pleasants, K. (2005) Outdoor and Environmental Studies VCE Units 1- 4 (Revised Edition), Thomson Learning, Melbourne.
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