Children Learning Outside the Classroom

From Birth to Eleven

Sue Waite

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526421333
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Curricula

The new edition of this bestselling textbook continues to help students and professionals understand the importance of getting children learning outside the traditional classroom, and is packed full of creative information and ideas for teachers and practitioners to incorporate outdoor activities throughout the school curriculum.

Significantly revised and updated the second edition now includes 7 brand new chapters on:

• Methods of assessment and evaluation
• Global perspectives on outdoor learning
• Developing whole school approaches to indoor and outdoor teaching
• Technology and its role outside the classroom
• Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and learning outdoors
• Forest School
• The environmental sector and outdoor learning

Whether you?re training to become a teacher, or already working in the classroom, this book demonstrates how the outdoor environment is enriching learning opportunities for children and deepening their connections with the natural world.

NOW FEATURING! Online resources that include free SAGE journal articles, weblinks, annotated further readings and video to help translate theory into real life practice. Sue Waite will be discussing key ideas from Children Learning Outside the Classroom: From Birth to Eleven in the SAGE Early Years Masterclass, a free professional development experience hosted by Kathy Brodie. To sign up, or for more information,

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Companion Website
• Introduction
• Part I Thinking Across the Whole
• 1 Theoretical Perspectives on Learning Outside the Classroom – Relationships Between Learning and Place
• 2 Methods of Assessment and Evaluation for Learning Outside the Classroom
• 3 What is the Change? Evaluating the Moorland Classroom’s Effect on Children
• 4 A Global View of Learning Outside the Classroom
• Part II Outdoor Practice Across Early Years and Primary
• 5 Very Young Children Learning Outdoors: Its Place in the Schooling System
• 6 Developing Whole School Approaches to Integrated Indoor/Outdoor Teaching
• 7 Outdoor Pedagogies in Support of Transition from Foundation Stage to Year 1
• 8 Technology and its Role Outside the Classroom
• 9 Special Educational Needs and Disability and Learning Outside the Classroom
• Part III Curriculum Areas
• 10 English, Communication and Language; and Languages Outside the Classroom
• 11 Understanding Mathematics Outside the Classroom
• 12 Science And Technology Outside the Classroom: Embedding Learning Outside the Classroom into the Science National Curriculum
• 13 Understanding Places and People Through History and Geography Outside the Classroom
• 14 The Arts Outside the Classroom
• 15 Physical Development, Health and Well-Being: The Role of Physical Education Outside the Classroom
• Part IV Partners and Progression
• 16 The Renaissance of Residential Experiences: Their Contribution to Outdoor Learning
• 17 Forest School: Core Principles in Changing Times
• 18 School Gardens and the School Food Plan: Contributing to a Culture of Healthy Living
• 19 How the Outdoor Environmental Sector Can Support Schools
• 20 Making A Difference: Learning on a Grand Scale
• References
• Index