An Invitation At a time of mounting social and environmental crises, it becomes imperative for educators to reflect and reconsider the aims and purposes of education. Beyond its immediate functions to serve pre-established expectations or providing formal training in a competitive market, we consider education as a relational practice and a place of encounter within […]

Our exhibition opens 25-26th September 2025. Charteris Land Foyer and First Floor Stairwell, Moray House School of Education and Sport, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ During the Professional Graduate Diploma of Primary Education (PGDE) Programme, our students explore and experience inter-and-trans-disciplinary practices through STEAM. STEAM as an acronym is commonly understood as SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGIES, ENGINEERING, ARTS and […]

Publications We have published a range of research papers, reports, and briefings focusing on the role and potential of gardens in education, arts-based and creative methodologies, and sensorial and material-aesthetic approaches in STEAM education. See a selected list of our publications below. Hancock, J., Colucci-Gray, L., Darling-McQuistan, K., Chapman-Kelly, S. (Accepted/In Press). Decolonising primary teacher […]

PGDE STEAM Week (2023-ongoing) Add details…. STEAM Gardens: … (2024-2025) Add details… STEAM Garden Pilot Project (2021) The STEAM Garden Pilot Project brought together University of Edinburgh student volunteers and S1-S3 pupils at Castlebrae High School in learning about food growing in the school garden. The focus of the pilot was to provide a space […]

Through layering aesthetic experiences involving the senses, the body and materials, we can explore some of the centralising discourses that frame our roles as educators, and in turn begin to imagine how we could forge new relationships with our students, new ways of being that encompass who we are, and the places that shape us. […]

Connections Our transdisciplinary collective involves students, teachers, teacher educators, researchers, artists, scientists, policymakers, and community actors. We are closely linked to the Sustainability in Educational Research Group (SIERG) and the Teacher Education, Curriculum, and Pedagogy (TECP) Hub at Moray House School of Education and Sport. Contacts If you’d like more information and to become involved, […]