Overview
- Examines contemporary developments in outdoor learning
- Draws together research-driven and practitioner pieces
- Calls for an exploration of alternatives to test-based educational approaches
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education (PSAE)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Contribution to Outdoor Learning from Non-human Animals
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New Frontiers: Contemporary Research into Outdoor Learning
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About this book
This book explores contemporary developments in outdoor learning, where the outdoors is seen as the context rather than the subject of learning. Ranging from pathfinder pieces written by practitioners to rigorous research-based pieces of work, the book explores the growing interest in animals as the basis for wider learning strategies as well as drawing together a wide range of outdoor learning approaches for all ages. Within these two discrete sections the contributors, who are drawn from a wide range of practitioners, academics and researchers, describe and analyse innovative approaches that address the need to explore alternatives to current test-based approaches to education in the western world. The whole offers a contemporary, informative, alternative approach to outdoor learning for teachers, practitioners and students.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Roger Cutting is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, UK. He worked as an Associate Professor in Environmental Education for 16 years before becoming Education Lead at the Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth.
Rowena Passy is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, UK. She has a long-standing interest in learning outdoors, shifting in her 40s from competitive horse-riding and teaching to academia, and is currently researching the effects of volunteering in the natural world.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Approaches to Outdoor Learning
Book Subtitle: Animals, the Environment and New Methods
Editors: Roger Cutting, Rowena Passy
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85095-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85094-4Published: 04 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85097-5Published: 05 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85095-1Published: 03 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-5036
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5044
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 259
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Alternative Education, Environmental and Sustainability Education