ABSTRACT In this paper, the author discusses the interrelationship between creativity, children’s experiences of the natural world and pastoral education. Based on a research design developed whilst undertaking a professional doctorate in education (EdD), and grounded in a theoretical framework of children’s rights, the author explores the creative uncertainties of collaboratively researching children’s educational experiences with nature. The paper considers the ways in which the research design supports a pastoral care agenda, whilst encouraging the emergence of ‘creative artefacts’, alongside the extent to which the focus of the research, encounters with the natural world, might be deemed pastorally minded in its own right. The children who have participated in the research then draw the paper to a close, sharing what their involvement in the project has meant to them. Images and excerpts of children’s own creative reflections are offered as illustration of the powerful confluence of the Creative and the Pastoral.

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参与式创造力：为儿童与自然世界的田园接触开发研究设计

摘要 在本文中，作者讨论了创造力、儿童对自然世界的体验和田园教育之间的相互关系。基于在攻读教育专业博士学位 (EdD) 期间开发的研究设计，并以儿童权利的理论框架为基础，作者探索了与自然合作研究儿童教育体验的创造性不确定性。该论文考虑了研究设计支持教牧关怀议程的方式，同时鼓励“创造性人工制品”的出现，以及研究的重点在多大程度上与自然世界相遇，可能会被视为具有教牧意识。自己的权利。参与研究的孩子们然后将论文画上句号，分享他们参与该项目对他们意味着什么。提供了儿童自己的创造性思考的图像和摘录，作为创意和田园​​的强大融合的例证。