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The Occasional Paper Series, published twice yearly, is a forum for work that extends, deepens and challenges the progressive legacy on which Bank Street College is built. The series seeks to promote discussion about what it means to educate in a democracy and to meet the interrelated demands of equity and excellence.

The series is a peer-reviewed, open access journal.

Current Issue: Number 50 (2023)
Learning with Treescapes in Environmentally Endangered Times

Full Issue

Articles

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Traces of Worms
Zoey Ashcroft

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Connecting Children and Young People with Trees
Gill Forrester, Jo Maker, Will Price, Hollie Davison, and Heather Gilbert

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Painting Our Treescapes: A Visual
Gretel Olson, Ingrid Olson, and Stephanie Schuurman-Olson

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Treescapes
Alexandra Délano Alonso and Marco Saavedra

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Arboreal Methodologies: Getting Lost to Explore the Potential of the Non-innocence of Nature
Jayne Osgood, Suzanne Axelsson, Tamsin Cavaliero, Máire Hanniffy, and Susan McDonnell

Guest Editors

Samyia Ambreen

Samyia Ambreen is a Research Associate in Education and Social Sciences Research Institute (ESRI) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research interests include understanding children’s interactions through a participatory research design, with a focus on ethnicity and cultural diversity. She is also interested in hope, children’s spiritualty, and care towards environment.

Kate Pahl

Kate Pahl is Professor of Arts and Literacy at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work is concerned with literacy and language practices in communities. She is the author, with Jennifer Rowsell, of Living Literacies (MIT Press 2020). She is currently the Principal Investigator of ‘Voices of the Future’, a three year project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), exploring the relationship between children and young people and Treescapes.