Elizabeth (Zabe) MacEachren
Associate Professor, Graduate Faculty, Coordinator of Outdoor and Experiential Education
BNS (Lakehead), BEd (Lakehead), MSc (Nat'l Audubon Expedition Inst. and Lesley College), PhD (York)
Contact Information
Room: B187
Phone: 613-533-6000 x 77243
Email: maceache@queensu.ca
Research Interests
- Hands-on making experiences as a form of environmental education, subject integration, and holistic education
- Ecological literacy, Sustainability, Self-sufficiency
- Schoolground naturalization, Restoration practices
- Storytelling as experiential education
- Traditional winter travel curriculum
- Women’s experiences in outdoor environments
- Outdoor-based practices for teaching Canadian Heritage (E.g. Voyageurs & Hunting-based curricula)
- Perceptions that shape concepts of health and cognition (E.g. outdoor fitness routines and diets such as primal, paleo or vegetarian)
- Animality, specifically notions of Wild and Domesticated animals
Biography
Zabe MacEachren is the Coordinator of the Outdoor and Experiential Education Program in the Faculty of Education, Queens University. Her main research interest explores the pedagogy of making items of utility and beauty from material gathered directly from the land. From this main research area other related but seemingly eclectic interests are woven into her research publications.
Recent Publications
MacEachren, Z. (2012). Exploring Material Culture in the Barrenlands. Pathways, Journal of Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario, Winter
Henderson, B & MacEachren, Z. (2012). Svend Ulstrup: A Boat Builder / Educator / For Our Time.Nastagan Journal of Wilderness Canoe Association, Winter
MacEachren, Z. (2011). The Role of Making the Stuff of Life in Place-based education, Pathways, Journal of Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario, Summer
MacEachren, Z. (2011). Using Brain Research and the Experience of Knitting Socks in Teacher Education, LEARNing Landscapes, Vol. 5. No1, Quebec, Autumn (on-line journal)
