Learning in Informal Settings

Walking, Reading, and Storying Land: Learning in the Natural World 

Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 3:30pm

Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall

Dr. Ananda Marin,assistant professor of education at UCLA, studies socio-cultural dimensions of learning and development in everyday and intergenerational contexts. Her talk will draw from research by Indigenous scholars and interaction analysis traditions, as we discuss walking, reading, and storying land as a methodology for learning about the natural world. Illustrated by parent and child video from one family’s nature walk, Dr. Marin will explore the ways in which shifts in movement — from walking to stopping — and configurations of the landscape provide both the means and content for learning.

The series features innovative informal learning experts from museums to makerspaces to outdoor places, and it is co-sponsored by the CU Boulder School of Education and the Museum of Natural History.  All talks are free and open to the public. Attendees are invited to a meet-and-greet reception following the talks.

Save the Dates for future talks:

• April 3: David George Haskell, Professor at Sewanee, the University of the South and Pulitzer Prize finalist for “The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature”
• May 1: Carrie Tzou, Associate Professor at the University of Washington, Bothell

For more information visit the CU Museum event page or call 303.492.6892.