Focusing on outdoor learning, this book provides teachers with practical strategies and theoretical insights to integrate meaningful outdoor experiences into their daily lessons. It emphasizes adaptability for various teaching environments and diverse student populations, encouraging educators to enhance engagement and learning through nature-based activities.
Adventurous Learning interrogates the word 'adventure' and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Teachers of all kinds can adapt these guidelines for indoor and outdoor teaching in their own culturally specific, place-responsive contexts, without any requirement to learn a new program or buy an educational gimmick. As forces of standardization and regulation continue to pervade educational systems across the globe, both teaching and learning have been starved of creativity, choice and 'real world' relevance. Many teachers are keen to improve their practice yet feel constrained by the institutional structures within which they work. By carefully examining adventure and its role in education, teachers can become better able to design and deliver engaging programmes that are underpinned by sound pedagogical principles, and which have deep and enduring meaning for their students.
Following the acclaim of 2012's Learning Outside the Classroom, this latest book more deeply explains how well-constructed outdoor learning experiences can benefit children and young people's academic development and health and well-being.
This book explores theory that can be used to inform how educational expeditions are conceptualised, planned, and facilitated. The contributors offer a wide range of perspectives through which expeditions for educational purposes can be considered.Eleven accessible chapters examine the following topics:- The British Youth Expedition: Cultural and Historical Perspectives- Virtue Ethics and Expeditions- Interactionism and Expeditions- The Expedition and Rites of Passage- Science on Expeditions- Choices, Values, and Untidy Processes: Personal, Social, and Health Education on Educational Expeditions- Expeditions and Liberal Arts University Education- Understanding Heritage Travel: Story, Place, and Technology- Expeditions for People with Disabilities- Ethics for Expeditions- Current IssuesAiming to bridge theory and practice, each chapter outlines relevant literature, highlights key areas for consideration, and offers suggestions for real-world application. The book will be of interest to researchers, university students, expedition organisers, and outdoor instructors.