Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning

Tonia Gray is Senior Researcher at Western Sydney University's Centre for Educational Research, Australia. She has been involved in outdoor education for over 30 years as a researcher, practitioner and curriculum developer, and in 2014 received the prestigious Australian Award for Excellence in University Teaching.Denise Mitten is Graduate Chair of Adventure Education at Prescott College, USA, and is internationally recognized for her scholarship in outdoor and environmental pedagogy, and ethics and leadership.

“This book offers insights to all those who work, live, play in and who love the outdoors. It is of particular value to students on their respective paths to professional roles in the outdoors, teachers (scholars, researchers and lecturers in outdoor fields) and the leaders/elders that govern, guide and shape the sector.” (Mandi Baker, Annals of Leisure Research, October 24, 2019)“It is a book that offers strategies and ideas for practitioners, academics, teacher educators, educators based in schools and early years settings, and researchers and research higher degree students – whether their work is in outdoor education or not. … this wonderful hopeful book is rich with ideas and directions for an inclusive nourishing future for us all.” (Alison L. Black, Journal of Education for Teaching JET, June 24, 2019)“This text will be a valuable resource that will no doubt be eye-opening for many outdoor and environmental education practitioners and researchers,especially those who have given little thought to women’s experiences in the outdoors or those who may not (yet) see the point of attending to gender in our field. It certainly has the potential to serve as a launch point for a great deal of future research and discussion.” (Jay Kennedy, Environmental Education Research, December, 23, 2018)“It is undeniable that the International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning is a game changer. I can imagine reading peer-reviewed papers in the field of outdoor learning published from this moment forward and asking myself to what degree the literature within this Handbook was included.” (Simon Beames, Gender, Work and Organization, December, 27 , 2018)“This much needed work – based on women’s voices – took my own perceptions of women and outdoor learning to the next level … . This book looks at the ordinary and every day through which have emerged extraordinary stories of resilience, happiness and heartache, sometimes all at once. … I invite all people working in outdoor learning environments to seek out this book, open to the first page, and embrace the adventure that follows.” (Heidi A. Smith, Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, July, 2018)

• SECTION I. Setting the Scene.- Chapter 1. Nourishing Terrains: Women’s Contributions to Outdoor Learning Environments; Tonia Gray and Denise Mitten.- Chapter 2. Let’s Meet at the Picnic Table at Midnight; Denise Mitten.- Chapter 3.Thirty Years On, and has the Gendered Landscape Changed in Outdoor Learning?; Tonia Gray.- Chapter 4. Outdoor Education: Threaded Pathways to Belonging; Sandy Allen Craig and Cathryn Carpenter.- Chapter 5. Elder Women Speak of Outdoor Learning and Experience; Genevieve Blades.- Chapter 6. Women’s Voices in the Outdoors; Jo Straker.- Chapter 7. Women and Leadership: Commitments to Nurturing, More-Than-Human Worlds, and Fun; Denise Mitten.- Chapter 8. Tourist and Sport Reform Dress, Friluftsliv, and Women’s Right to Vote: Norway 1880s-1913; Kirsti Pederson Gurholt.- Chapter 9. Building Relationship On and With Mother Mountain: Women Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge Into Outdoor Learning; Lynne Hoya Thomas, Nicole Taylorand Tonia Gray.- Chapter 10. Following the Currents of Mighty Women Past and Present; Anita Pryor.- Chapter 11. “Nature Study” as a Subject in the School Curriculum: A Female Voice From the Early Days; Rhona Miller.- SECTION II. Contested Spaces: Gender Disparity in Outdoor Learning Environments.- Chapter 12. Nourishing terrains? Troubling terrains? Women’s Outdoor Work in Aotearoa New Zealand; Martha Bell, Marg Cosgriff, Pip Lynch and Robyn Zink.- Chapter 13. Ongoing Challenges for Women as Outdoor Leaders; Deb Jordan.- Chapter 14. Alice Through the Looking-Glass: An Autoethnographic Account of Women’s Leadership in Outdoor Education in the UK; Kaz Stuart.- Chapter 15. Challenges Faced by Women Outdoor Leaders; Karen Warren, Shelly Risinger, TA Loeffler.- Chapter 16. Telling My Story: Being Female in Outdoor Education in Higher Education; Beth Christie.- Chapter 17. The Intangible Assets of Women as Leaders in Bush Adventure Therapy; FionaCameron.- Chapter 18. Messages about women through representation in adventure education texts and journals; Chapter 19. Locations of Resistance and Agency: The Actionable Space of Indian Women’s Connection to the Outdoors; Vinathe Sharma-Bryner.- Chapter 20. Becoming Relational in Outdoor Education: Not Just Women’s Work; Alison Lugg.- Chapter 21. Becoming Relational in Outdoor Education: Not Just Women’s Work; Marna Hauk.- Chapter 22. Justice for All: Women in Outdoor Education; Sarah Dubreil Karpa.- SECTION III. Motherhood and outdoor learning environments: chaos and complexity.- Chapter 23. Conversations With My Children: The Outdoors as a Site of Disaster and Triumph; Jackie Kiewa.- Chapter 24. Mirrored Tensions: A Mother-Daughter Introspection on Gendered Experiences in Outdoor Recreation; Jan Oakley.- Chapter 25. The Rebuilding of an Outdoor Identity.- Chapter 26. Heroine’s Journey: Navigating grief in the Outdoors to Emerge as a Bush Adventure Therapy Leader; Abby Buckley.- Chapter 27. Wild Abandon; Ruthie Rohde.- SECTION IV. Leadership, learning, and transformations.- Chapter 28. Becoming a Woodswoman; Christy Smith and Denise Mitten.- Chapter 29. The Backcountry of the Female Mind: Young Women’s Voices From the Wilderness; Sara Boilen.- Chapter 30. Outdoor Education Entanglements: A Crone’s Epiphany?; Noel Cox Caniglia.- Chapter 31. Eyes Wide Shut: A History of Blindness Towards the Feminine in Outdoor Education in Australia; Carol Birrell.- Chapter 32. Three Women’s Co-Autoethnography of Life-long Adventures in Nature; Di Collins, Heather Brown and Barbara Humberstone.- Chapter 33. Women, Physicality and the Outdoors: A Story of Strength and Fragility in a Kayaking Identity; Linda Allin.- Chapter 34. Once a Guide, Always a Guide: A Way of Being; Carroll Graham and Ruth Lusty.- Chapter 35. LGBTQ Girl Scouts Reflect on Their Outdoor Experiences; Stefanie Argus.-Chapter 36. Adventures Beyond Cookies: A Girl Scout Journey Into Crumbling Cookie Stereotypes; Priscilla McKenney.- Chapter 37. Reflections of an Educator on the Impact of the Outdoors on Body Positivity; Joelle Breault-Hood.- Chapter 38. Re(turning)to the Sacred Trails: (Re)storying Connections to More-Than-Human Worlds in Outdoor Education; Kathryn Riley.- Chapter 39. The Soloists Journey as a Window to Wisdom; Bridget Jackson.- SECTION V. Case Studies of Women in Action.- Chapter 40. Women’s Leadership of Family Nature Clubs: Furthering the Movement to Reconnect People with Nature; Chiara D'Amore.- Chapter 41. Singing in the Forest: Outdoor Education as Early Childhood Curriculum; Kumara Ward.- Chapter 42. Loose Parts Play: Creating Opportunities for Outdoor Education and Sustainability in Early Childhood; Jackie Neill.- Chapter 43. Outdoor Learning in Primary Schools - Predominately Female Ground; Amanda Lloyd.- Chapter 44. From theClassroom to the Cow: What We Have Learnt About Learning Through School-Farm Co-operation in Norway; Linda Jolly and Sidsel S. Sandberg.- Chapter 45. Changing Girls’ Lives: One Program at a Time; Anja Whittington.- Chapter 46. Empowering Girls and Women through Experiential Education: A Peace Corps Volunteer’s Story; Susie Barr-Wilson.- Chapter 47. Turning Inside Out: Learning Through Local Phenomena and Lived Experience; Clarice Lisle.- Chapter 48. OOSH Artists Explore Eco-Art for Ecopedagogical Outcomes; Samantha Crosby.- Chapter 49. Udeskole in Denmark: A Narrative of Mutual Support and Sharing; Chapter 50. Bringing the Inside Out and the Outside In: Place-Based Learning Rendering Classroom Walls Invisible; Katherine Bates.- Chapter 51. Space to Create: Learning with Nature in an Arts and Cultural Context Through a Woman's Lens; Mary Preece.- Chapter 52. Insights from a Canadian Woman: Place-Based Relationships and Narratives in Outdoor Education; Liz Peredun.- Chapter 53. Learning from Tragedy: The Legacies of Laura and Alice; Claire Dallat.- SECTION VI. Towards an inclusive and nourishing future for women in outdoor learning environments.- Chapter 54. Writing Gendered Embodiment into Outdoor Learning Environments: Journalling for Critical Consciousness; Jen Wigglesworth.- Chapter 55. Blazing a Trail…Together: The Need for Mentoring and Collaboration Amongst Women in Outdoor Leadership; Mary Ellen Avery, Christine Norton, Anita Tucker.- Chapter 56. Voices of Colour: Dreaming of an Inclusive Outdoor Leadership Environment; Tanya Rao and Nina Roberts.- Chapter 57. A Pākehā Woman’s Journey Towards Bicultural Responsibility In Outdoor Education; Maureen Legge.- Chapter 58. Seeking a way beyond gender: A case from a personal story; Takano Takako.- Chapter 59. True Nature: Coming Home to Self Through Nature and Adventure Experience.- Chapter 60. Leading from the Heart of Nature.- Chapter 61. Travel Play Live: Inspiring Adventurous Women Towards an Inclusive Future in Outdoor Learning Environments. Chapter 62. Pathways Forward to a More Inclusive Future Whilst Honouring the Past; Denise Mitten and Tonia Gray.