ISLS 2026
ICLS Short Paper

ICLS Short Paper Session | iS-PLACE-LAND-BASED | Place and land-based learning and education across various modalities

Wed Jun 17, 10:00 AM–11:30 AM · ALP 1110

Six short papers explore place- and land-based learning across modalities, including spatial typologies for active-learning classrooms and syncretic game designs interweaving virtual and natural worlds. Others address youth climate storytelling, multispecies discomfort in a STEAM program, identity play through creek science, and scientific practice in an archaeological apprenticeship.

6 talks in this session

#965: An Exploration of Spatial Typologies for Active Learning: Classroom Configurations and Pedagogical Strategies
Chenxuan Meng, James D. Slotta
#883: Syncretic Designs for Young People’s Social and Ecological Imagination across Virtual–Natural Worlds
Edward Rivero, Anu Kajamaa, Kristiina Kumpulainen
#875: Youth Climate Storytelling as Transformative Learning: A Scoping Review of Designs, Contexts, and Digital Practices
Asli Sezen-Barrie, Yuxi Huang
#845: Partnering with Multispecies Discomfort: Fear-facing as Multispecies Sensemaking in a STEAM Summer Program
Kellen Pautzke, Kristin Saba Fisher, Molly L. Kelton, Jeb P. Owen
#804: Identity Play through “Creek-Science” as Liminal Practice
Heidi B. Carlone, Lauren Connelly, Bethany Daniel, Hannah H. Ziegler, Yelena Janumyan
#691: More Than Digging a Hole in the Ground: Novice Enactment of Science Practice in an Archaeological Apprenticeship
Zhichun Liu, Shiyao Wei, Weiting Qi, Peter J. Cobb