The BERA Guide to Outdoor Learning
Place-Responsive Pedagogy in Educational Research and Practice
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The BERA Guide to Outdoor Learning
Place-Responsive Pedagogy in Educational Research and Practice
About this book
Educational research worldwide has shown that outdoor learning is a positive element of educational practices, which benefits children's mental health and wellbeing, physical wellness, cognitive development.
The BERA Guide to Outdoor Learning offers diverse perspectives on outdoor learning in all educational settings and advocates a teaching philosophy centred on immersive experiences, nature connection, play, dialogue and experiential learning, making use of place-based pedagogical perspectives. This collection shows how outdoor, play-based learning can support the teaching in all educational contexts including Higher Education. The theoretical framework for the future of research and practice in outdoor learning will benefit practitioners in both primary and secondary schools, school leaders, teacher educators and outdoor learning providers. Accompanied by case studies and vignettes, chapters exemplify how research in alternative and under-represented aspects of outdoor learning can support the development of curriculum and pedagogy to develop creative and meaningful learning experiences for all children to deepen their learning across a 'broad and balanced' curriculum.
Published in partnership between the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and Emerald Publishing, The BERA Guides are short, research-informed yet accessible introductions to key, interdisciplinary topics impacting education research and practice for a broad academic audience.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- List of Figures and Table
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Encountering Ideas of Place in Outdoor Learning
- A Pause for Connection
- PART 1: THEORISING PLACE-RESPONSIVE PEDAGOGY IN OUTDOOR LEARNING
- Chapter 1 – Place-responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor Learning
- Chapter 2 – Decolonising Outdoor Learning: Developing Connectedness Through Place-responsive Pedagogy Beyond the Early Years in England
- Chapter 3 – Inclusive and Holistic Practice in Place-responsive Outdoor Learning
- PART 2: PLACE-RESPONSIVE PEDAGOGY IN ACTION
- Chapter 4 – Building Connection to Place: Time and Space in Place-responsive Pedagogy
- Chapter 5 – Mudfulness? Nurturing a Relationship with Nature Through Serendipitous Encounters with Mud
- Chapter 6 – ‘No Badge Required’: A Bucket School Approach to Support Teaching and Learning in the Outdoors
- PART 3: CONTINUING THE JOURNEY OF PLACE-RESPONSIVE PEDAGOGY IN OUTDOOR LEARNING
- Chapter 7 – The Next Generation of Learning Outside: Fostering Place-responsive Pedagogy in Initial Teacher Education
- Chapter 8 – Continuing the Journey of Place-responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor Learning
- References
- Index