Elisabeth Barratt Hacking – författare

Place-based education is growing rapidly in popularity, as more and more educators recognise the benefits and opportunities it offers to students. This book focuses on the research and practice of place-based education, or PBE, presenting ideas and strategies for enhancing learning through community participation and real world experiences.

The book defines a philosophical framework for PBE, present research paradigms and methodologies adopted by the field and critique a range of pedagogical approaches. Drawing on a series of international and interdisciplinary case studies, chapters build on a theoretical framework with solid practice examples and strategies to locate learning in real-world communities and places. Written in an accessible style, each chapter is framed by reflective questions, present current thinking, include case studies and tasks for practitioners and end with questions for discussion and suggest further reading.

Situating PBE for the first time in a UK context, this book will be of interest to school-based educators are the opportunities for curriculum enhancement in science, environmental education, outdoor education, the humanities, technology and the cultural arts.

This handbook provides a compilation of research in Childhoodnature and brings together existing research themes and seminal authors in the field alongside new cutting-edge research authored by world-class researchers drawing on cross-cultural and international research data.

The underlying objectives of the handbook are two-fold:

• Opening up spaces for Childhoodnature researchers;

The use of the new concept ‘Childhoodnature’ reflects the editors’ and authors’ underpinning belief, and the latest innovative concepts in the field, that as children are nature this should be redefined in this integrating concept. The handbook will, therefore, critique and reject an anthropocentric view of nature. As such it will disrupt existing ways of considering children and nature and reject the view that humans are superior to nature.

The work will include a Childhoodnature Companion featuring works by children and young people which will effectively enable children and young people to not only undertake their own research, but also author and represent it alongside this Research Handbook on Childhoodnature.