
- 176 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Forest School and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years
About this book
Outdoor learning continues to play an essential role in early years education, and this new edition of a bestselling book explores how the Forest School approach can be easily and effectively incorporated into early years practice.
Expanding on aspects of Forest School teaching, and drawing on new developments and policy changes within the field, this new edition also includes:
- a new chapter on working with parents
- greater coverage of the 0-2 age range
- new case studies to aid learning
- coverage of international approaches to Forest School
Yet again Sara Knight delivers an inspirational text for all those working in or studying early years education and care.
Sara Knight is an experienced early years educator and Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University. She is a trained Forest School practitioner and author of Forest Schools For All and Risk and Adventure in Early Years Outdoor Play (both published by SAGE).
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle
- Advertisement
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Case studies
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Key for icons
- 1 Contextualising Forest School
- 2 What makes a Forest School?
- 3 Exercise, fresh air and learning
- 4 Working with parents and carers
- 5 Seeing the links
- 6 Participating in Forest School
- 7 Getting the Forest School ethos into settings
- 8 Forest School with other groups and in other countries
- 9 Outcomes from Forest School participation – some research
- Appendix: Providers of Forest School training
- Glossary
- References and bibliography
- Index