Environment as the third Teacher-QLD

Presenter: Kirsty Liljegren

Date: Saturday, 8 November 2025

Time: 9:00am-3:30pm

Venue: Silkwood School, Senior Campus, Robina

Category: Workshop

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Program Description

The Environment as the Third Teacher explores spaces, places and relations that enable rich pedagogy and practices.

This full day workshop includes:

• Big picture considerations – exploring the role of theories, principles and images, to provide a foundation for the exploration of environments in early childhood contexts.
• Designs and dimensions of environments – examining architectural principles and case studies in local Australian contexts to provoke thinking and open possibilities.
• Applications – to enable participants to make connections between theories, principles and practice to put in place possibilities (and consider missed opportunities) within educators’ own contexts.

An understanding of the Reggio Emilia principles and practice is required in order to fully participate in this workshop.

About the Presenter:

Kirsty Liljegren is a highly regarded education consultant in the early childhood and early primary sector, working both nationally and internationally.

Sharing her wisdom and experience as a teacher and leader in the sector over many years, stories from practice punctuate her sessions. Kirsty draws on her insatiable curiosity about learning with and for children and adults in her welcoming and relatable style.

Through her attitude and disposition of being a researcher, Kirsty believes that we can authentically make a difference in the lives of children and families as we optimise the conditions for children to learn and flourish as part of a community of learners.

Kirsty’s approach to her work builds from a commitment to the right of educators to be intellectually and emotionally engaged in what they do as part of this profession.

As a long-standing Board Member of the Reggio Emilia Australia Information Exchange, Kirsty proudly volunteers to support the vital work of this not-for-profit organisation to reimagine how education can be.