Outdoor Learning Research: Insight Into Forms and Functions

ISBN-13: 9781138348998 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 360 str.

Sue Waite

Opis

This book brings together international research to inform the development of outdoor learning, with eight of its twenty-two chapters focusing on Forest School. Opportunities and challenges are presented about how outdoor learning is currently enacted and how it can be embedded and assessed for children aged 3-13. The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in Education 3–13: International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction: Outdoor Learning: exploring possibilities for educational enrichment  1. Teaching and learning outside the classroom: personal values, alternative pedagogies and standards  2. ‘Memories are made of this’: some reflections on outdoor learning and recall  Part I: International perspectives about outdoor learning  3. Towards an understanding of udeskole: education outside the classroom in a Danish context  4. ‘Let's go outside’: Icelandic teachers' views of using the outdoors  5. The outdoor environment as a site for children's participation, meaning-making and democratic learning: examples from Norwegian kindergartens  6. The ‘outdoor school’ as a school improvement process: empirical results from the perspective of teachers in Germany  7. The reconceptualisation of outdoor education in the primary school classroom in Aotearoa New Zealand: how might we do it?  Part II: Embedding outdoor learning in education for children aged 3-13  8. Everyday teaching and outdoor learning: developing an integrated approach to support school-based provision  9. Falling into LINE: school strategies for overcoming challenges associated with learning in natural environments (LINE)  10. Improving and encouraging teacher confidence in out-of-classroom learning: the impact of the Hampshire Trailblazer project on 3–13 curriculum practitioners  11. Assessing learning in the early years’ outdoor classroom: examining challenges in practice  12. Diverse aims, challenges and opportunities for assessing outdoor learning: a critical examination of three cases from practice  Part III: Purposes and pedagogies of outdoor learning  13. Can the integration of field and classroom-based learning enhance writing? The life on our shore case study  14. Outdoor mathematics trails: an evaluation of one training partnership  15. School gardens: teaching and learning outside the front door  16. Learning outdoors: the Forest School approach  17. The nature of learning at forest school: practitioners' perspectives  18. Fostering children’s relationship with nature: exploring the potential of Forest School  19. Footprints in the woods: ‘tracking’ a nursery child through a Forest School session  20. Forest School in an inner city? Making the impossible possible  21. Does engagement in Forest School influence perceptions of risk, held by children, their parents, and their school staff?  22. Encounters with Forest School and Foucault: a risky business?

O autorze

Sue Waite, formerly Reader in Outdoor Learning at Plymouth University, UK, has a long history of research and publications about play, learning and wellbeing in natural environments, including two research council awards and a large project on curriculum-based outdoor learning, Natural Connections. Her edited book, Children Learning Outside the Classroom: From Birth to Eleven (2017), is in its second edition. She currently holds honorary posts at Plymouth Institute of Education and Jönköping University, Sweden.