Te Waiora - Ngā Tau 0-10
The final Te Waiora curriculum presents wellbeing as including taha taiao, with outdoor experiences and kaitiakitanga as part of Māori-medium learning.
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.
Research library
5 items
Outdoor school-based nature education programs improve social life and vitality: evidence from a six-wave longitudinal study on Italian secondary school students
In a study of 203 Italian students, outdoor programme participation was linked to early gains in social identity and civic engagement, but later effects were inconsistent.
Personal health impacts of adventurous outdoor learning
This open-access analysis proposes physiological and neurological pathways through which adventurous outdoor learning may affect stress, mood and cognition.
Learning that lingers
Young women who did a compulsory 28-day school outdoor programme still recognised enduring learning years later, and some recalled significant difficulty.
Outdoor education and sustained student wellbeing: a scoping review
A review of 20 studies found 80 per cent reported positive wellbeing outcomes from outdoor education, sometimes lasting months or years.