BERA Guide to Outdoor Learning

Place-Responsive Pedagogy in Educational Research and Practice

AvLucy Sors,Lucy Sors

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-16
Mått:138 x 216 x 10 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The BERA Guides
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Emerald Publishing Limited
ISBN:9781836081937

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Lucy Sors is a senior lecturer at York St John University specialising in outdoor learning, inclusion and languages.Ruth Unsworth is a senior lecturer at University of Glasgow, UK.

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The BERA Guide to Outdoor Learning: Place-Responsive Pedagogy in Educational Research and Practice offers an inspiring exploration of outdoor education through the lens of place-responsiveness. It is a timely and welcome contribution to the growing literature on outdoor learning that underscores the importance of taking education outdoors to provide children and young people with opportunities to directly engage and interact with the world around them. Organised in two parts, the book first blends theoretical insights with practical advice for place-pedagogy before moving on to provide examples of place-based pedagogy in action. With a commitment to experiential learning, this book challenges practitioners to slow down and thoughtfully engage students with their locality thus embracing outdoor learning as a transformative approach to embrace the transformative power of outdoor learning to cultivate deeper connections with place, community and self through place-responsive pedagogy. It is both a call to action and a reflective guide for those seeking to create meaningful, holistic educational experiences beyond the classroom.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword; Mark LeatherIntroduction: Encountering Ideas of Place in Outdoor Learning; Lucy Sors and Ruth UnsworthA Pause for Connection; Lucy SorsPart 1. Theorising Place-responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor LearningChapter 1. Place-responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor Learning; Lucy SorsChapter 2. Decolonising Outdoor Learning: Developing Connectedness Through Place-responsive Pedagogy beyond the Early Years in England; Lucy Sors and Louise WhitfieldChapter 3. Inclusive and Holistic Practice in Place-responsive Outdoor Learning; Lucy SorsPart 2. Place-responsive Pedagogy in ActionChapter 4. Building Connection to Place: Time and Space in Place-Based Pedagogy; Ruth UnsworthChapter 5. Mudfulness? Nurturing a Relationship with Nature Through Serendipitous Encounters with Mud; Tracy Ann HayesChapter 6. ‘No Badge Required’: A Bucket School Approach to Support Teaching and Learning in the Outdoors; Louise Hawxwell and Nicky BoltonPart 3. Continuing the Journey of Place-responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor LearningChapter 7. The Next Generation of Learning Outside: Fostering Place-responsive Pedagogy in Initial Teacher Education; Lucy Sors, Jen Huntsley, and Stephanie JachChapter 8. Continuing the Journey of Place-Responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor Learning; Ruth Unsworth and Lucy Sors