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Description
Join renowned educator and author Lisa Burman for an inspiring half-day workshop focused on creating learning environments that honour children’s identities, promote deep engagement, and reflect a pedagogy of listening and learner agency. This session invites educators to rethink how physical and relational spaces influence learning, relationships, and curriculum design. Through rich provocation and practical examples, participants will explore how intentional environmental choices can support children’s sense of belonging and empower them as capable, active contributors to their learning. The workshop will also examine how deinstitutionalising certain practices can open up new possibilities for collaboration, creativity, and authentic participation. Educators will leave with fresh perspectives and practical strategies to transform their settings into vibrant, responsive spaces that truly reflect the children and communities they serve.
Outcomes
Key Outcomes Aligned to EYLF V2.0, Kindergarten Guidelines & WA Curriculum.
- Critically reflect on the role of environment as the 'third teacher', drawing connections to EYLF V2.0 principles of responsive and inclusive practice.
- Identify institutional features in early childhood settings and explore strategies to replace them with child-led, culturally responsive, and aesthetically rich alternatives.
- Strengthen curriculum design by aligning environmental choices with the Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines’ emphasis on play-based, inquiry-driven learning.
- Explore the concept of belonging and identity through space-making, ensuring environments reflect children’s cultures, languages, and communities.
- Develop strategies to support children’s agency, wellbeing, and active participation through intentional environmental design.
- Connect environmental transformation to curriculum outcomes, including those in the WA Curriculum related to personal and social capability, critical thinking, and creativity.
Presenters
Lynne McCarney (AISWA Staff)
Consultant | Early Childhood
Lynne is an experienced educator, leader, and consultant whose career spans early childhood, school settings, and adult education. She has worked with children and adults across mainstream contexts and complex learning and trauma-impacted environments, strengthening her expertise in relational pedagogy, oral language development, and responsive, research-aligned practice. A lifelong learner, Lynne views children as capable, competent learners and advocates for education systems and policy holders to uphold education approaches that honour everyone’s wellbeing, creativity and development. Her high-energy, hands-on workshops deliver practical, meaningful strategies that empower educators and leaders to adapt their practice, embrace contemporary early childhood science, and rediscover or maintain the joy in teaching and learning.
Lisa Burman
Lisa Burman sees herself firstly as a teacher, which means she is as a constant learner, fascinated with childhood and the power and joy of learning. She is the Director and Principal Consultant for Lisa Burman Consultants, based in Adelaide, South Australia. Lisa is the author of “Are You Listening? Fostering Conversations that Help Young Children Learn” and A Culture of Agency: Fostering Engagement, Empowerment, Identity and Belonging in the Early Years. Her pedagogical consultancy specialises in early childhood education and literacy learning, and she is particularly passionate about pedagogies that are playful and build children’s identities as readers and writers.
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Segments
Reimagining Early Childhood Spaces: Enhancing Physical Environments with Lisa Burman
Date / Time
25 Feb 2026 Starts: 09:00 Finishes: 15:30Delivery Format : Webinar
Webinar - Online Only
PL Hours : 6.50
Learning Area
- Early Childhood
School Area
- Preschool (PK-K)
- Early Childhood (PK - 2)
- Education Assistants
- Pre-Primary
- Kindergarten