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.
5 items
After a single 4.5-hour forest programme, pupils aged 11–13 described forests and foresters' work in more specific, sensory and forestry-related language.
This study presents the beach as a setting for sensory, open-ended play with seaweed, stones, ash and sound, valuing learning encounters that resist predetermined outcomes.
South African geography teachers see learner safety as the biggest barrier to fieldwork, and the authors suggest using school grounds and walkable local areas.
Australian educators co-designed an assessment tool for bush kinder that helped them understand children's learning in nature more deeply.
An eight-week outdoor activity-based PE programme was linked to large gains in physical literacy, fitness and environmental awareness for fifth-grade pupils.