Research, reports and guidance on education outside the classroom and outdoor education, with a plain-English summary of each and a link to the original. New items are added every week.
The library began with Education Outside the Classroom: Applied Research Readings 2010–2017(McNatty & Boyes, University of Otago, 2017). Later items were found, summarised and checked with AI assistance using the same method: every reference is checked against the publisher's record, every summary against the published abstract, and only items rated high confidence by two independent relevance checks are published. Summaries are a guide: read the original before citing it.
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A three-year professional learning programme in three rural regions shows teachers moving from adapting given units to designing their own place-based units.
Among 419 Hungarian students, nearly 55 per cent linked school nature experiences with too much discipline or too little free time, so going outdoors is not always a positive experience.
In three newly greened Paris primary schools, teachers often moved usual lessons outside without engaging with the place itself.
Eight Australian case studies describe three facilitator styles in nature play: nature pedagogues, nature guides and nature players.