Full Description
The BERA Guide to Outdoor Learning: Place-responsive Pedagogy in Educational Research and Practice reignites an educational focus on the role of place in outdoor learning. The book offers a timely and relevant response to contemporary societal, environmental, and educational issues, alongside an increasing demand to renew children and young people's relationships with the world around them. Anchored in the core principles of place-responsive pedagogy, this book offers educators a breath of fresh air amidst increased curriculum demands and performance metrics in a post-pandemic neoliberal landscape. Insights emerge from a rich convergence of theory, practical application, and lived experience. Authors make a compelling case for outdoor learning as a means of fostering world-resonance, resilience, creativity, and a sense of belonging, as well as highlighting inclusive pathways for place-responsive education.
Contents
Foreword; Mark Leather
Introduction: Encountering Ideas of Place in Outdoor Learning; Lucy Sors and Ruth Unsworth
A Pause for Connection; Lucy Sors
Part 1. Theorising Place-responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor Learning
Chapter 1. Place-responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor Learning; Lucy Sors
Chapter 2. Decolonising Outdoor Learning: Developing Connectedness Through Place-responsive Pedagogy beyond the Early Years in England; Lucy Sors and Louise Whitfield
Chapter 3. Inclusive and Holistic Practice in Place-responsive Outdoor Learning; Lucy Sors
Part 2. Place-responsive Pedagogy in Action
Chapter 4. Building Connection to Place: Time and Space in Place-Based Pedagogy; Ruth Unsworth
Chapter 5. Mudfulness? Nurturing a Relationship with Nature Through Serendipitous Encounters with Mud; Tracy Ann Hayes
Chapter 6. 'No Badge Required': A Bucket School Approach to Support Teaching and Learning in the Outdoors; Louise Hawxwell and Nicky Bolton
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; Lucy Sors, Jen Huntsley, and Stephanie Jach
Chapter 8. Continuing the Journey of Place-Responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor Learning; Ruth Unsworth and Lucy Sors
