Cultivating Nature Connection: Instructor Narratives of Urban Outdoor Education
Instructors in a Toronto urban outdoor programme described building children's nature connection as creating space for it, engaging that space, and broadening it.
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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Outdoor learning spaces: The case of forest school
Forest school leaders see the outdoor site as a separate, more flexible learning space where children and adults work out new ways of teaching and learning together.
Mindful Place-Based Education: Mapping the Literature
A literature review argues that combining mindfulness with place-based education may help teachers and students experience place more deeply and think critically about power structures.
Field trips to natural environments: how outdoor educators use the physical environment
Outdoor educators on field trips often pointed out scientific concepts but rarely worked on values and attitudes; structured active learning stood out as contributing to a variety of outcomes.