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Staff Profile

Alistair Stewart

Alistair Stewart

Lecturer

Room/Location: Ironbark Centre, 2.12
Ph: 5444 7493
Fx: 5444 7848
Email: a.stewart@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications

  • Master of Science (Environmental Management), University of Tasmania, 2003
  • Bachelor of Arts (Outdoor Education), La Trobe University, 1996

Teaching Areas

  • OED2ACL: Australian Culture and Land, Year 2 OE, NT (unit coordinator)
  • OED2RWE: River and Wetland Environments, Year 2 NT (unit coordinator)
  • OED2BE: NT2 Bush Environments Year 2 NT (unit coordinator)

Professional Involvement

  • Member, editorial board, Australian Journal of Outdoor Education since March 2006
  • Reviewer, International Outdoor Education Research Conference: Widening Horizons: Diversity in theoretical and critical views of outdoor education , University of Central Lancashire, UK, July 2006
  • Reviewer, International Outdoor Education Research Conference: Connections and Disconnections: Examining the reality and rhetoric. International perspectives on outdoor education theory and practice , La Trobe University Bendigo, 2004
  • Victorian Outdoor Education Association, council member 1998-2000.
  • Victorian National Parks Association;
  • Australian Conservation Foundation;
  • Birds Australia;
  • Bendigo Field Naturalist Club;
  • Bendigo Alpine Club

Research Interests

My research interests include the development outdoor and environmental pedagogy to address the natural and cultural history of specific locations. An aspect of this involves the development of outdoor and environmental education teaching that is responsive to the cultural-environmental issues of a given community. I am currently investigating how secondary schools local to the Murray River (within 50 kms) use the river in their programs.

Refereed Articles

Stewart, A. (2006). Seeing the trees and the forest: Attending to Australian natural history as if it mattered. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 22 (2), 85-97.

Stewart, A. (2004). Decolonising encounters with the Murray River: Building place responsive outdoor education Australian Journal of Outdoor Education , 8(2), 46-55.

Stewart, A. (2004). Canoeing the Murray River (Australia) as environmental education: A tale of tale of two rivers . Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 9, 136-147.

Stewart, A. (2003). Reinvigorating our love of our home range: Exploring the connections between sense of place and outdoor education . Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 7(2), 17-24.

Book Chapter

Stewart, A. (2003). Encountering landscapes: an exploration of environment specific learning on an extended journey . In B. Humberstone, H. Brown & K. Richards (Eds.), Whose journeys? The outdoors and adventure as social and cultural phenomena: critical explorations of relations between individuals, 'others' and the environment. (pp. 311-328). Penrith, UK: The Institute for Outdoor Learning.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Stewart, A. (2006). Outdoor education as neo-colonialism? Cultural and geographical specificity in outdoor education. In Widening Horizons: Diversity in theoretical and critical views of outdoor education. Proceedings of the third International Outdoor Education Research Conference , [CD-ROM] .   University of Central Lancashire, Penrith, Cumbria, UK.

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