Skea, Claire and Fulford, Amanda (2020) Releasing Education into the Wild: An education in, and of, the outdoors. Ethics & Education, 16 (1). pp. 74-90. ISSN 1744-9642 Online ISSN: 1744-9650
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This paper considers the recent growth in different kinds of learning outside the classroom, especially Forest Schools. It shows how the activities associated with Forest Schools often involve mainstream curriculum content delivered in outdoor settings, with a focus on developing skills and attitudes that can be utilised when back in the classroom. Drawing on the works of Henry David Thoreau and Anna (Nan) Shepherd, we suggest that there is an important distinction to be made between an education in the outdoors, and an education of the outdoors. Through a close reading of ‘Walden’ and ‘The Living Mountain’, we argue that both works provide perspectives on being in the outdoors that offer rich educative possibilities. The paper suggests that an education of the outdoors is characterised by a form of attention that opens pupils to a different way of encountering and engaging with the world that is transformative.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | The definitive version of this article published by Taylor & Francis in Ethics and Education on 20th September 2020 available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449642.2020.1822612. |
| Keywords: | outdoor education; Thoreau; Shepherd; knowledge; attention. |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Claire Skea |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2021 15:16 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2024 11:32 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3417 |
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