Outdoor Experiential Learning in Canada

Buch | Softcover

356 Seiten

2025
Canadian Scholars (Verlag)
9781773385013 (ISBN)

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Embrace outdoor learning to boost student engagement, wellbeing, and environmental awareness. This guide empowers educators with curriculum-focused strategies and diverse perspectives—including Indigenous voices—to transform traditional classrooms into vibrant open-air spaces for holistic growth and connection.

Moving students' learning from the traditional indoor classroom to outdoor spaces has proven benefits. It expands student engagement and uptake, promotes mental and physical health, and strengthens students' awareness of Indigenous ways of knowing as well as environmental issues. Outdoor Experiential Learning in Canada takes pre- and in-service teachers and outdoor professionals on a journey that elevates their experience and effectiveness when teaching any curriculum content in an outdoor classroom.

With its focus on curriculum and instruction, this book focuses on 'where' students learn, emphasizing using outdoor spaces to teach. This book illustrates all the benefits of outdoor learning and how to be successful when educators teach students outside. The voices and perspectives of professional educators and practitioners from across Canada give readers a broad overview of outdoor learning from a variety of viewpoints, including Indigenous voices that ground the topic and provide a basis for connecting to the earth.

This book is intended to inspire teachers, pre-service teachers, outdoor professionals, and outdoor enthusiasts to take their students and clients outside to learn, connect, and grow.

Tim Buttler is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Burman University in Alberta. With a decade of experience as a high school science teacher, his current scholarly work focuses on science education, cultivating student-centred learning environments, and exploring the impact of teacher resilience. Kevin Kiers is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Burman University in Alberta. Previously, he chaired the Outdoor Leadership Department for four years, served as Youth Program Director and Summer Camp Director for ten years, and was an elementary school teacher for twelve years. He began and led an annual fifth & sixth-grade outdoor school program for twenty years, focused on curriculum-based outdoor learning. He serves on a North American Camp Committee and is developing training programs for outdoor educators, naturalists, and teachers. He recently completed his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Alberta. His dissertation on "School-based outdoor learning in Alberta: Examining K-9 teachers' success through mixed methods research" is the basis of this text.

Acknowledgements Foreword PrefaceIntroduction

Part 1: Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Chapter 1: The Importance of Holistic Land-based Learning: The Significance of the Indigenous Voices
Chapter 2: Sharing Stories of Teaching and Learning with the Land Tekenón:kwe Yothíthare (Two Kenyen'kehà:ka Women in Conversation)
Chapter 3: Indigenous Land-Based Learning

Part 2: Benefits of Outdoor Learning
Chapter 4: Can We Go Outside? The Benefits of Opening the Doors to an Outdoor Classroom
Chapter 5: Taking Teaching Outside: Learning Within Nature
Chapter 6: The Benefits of Outdoor Education: Engaging in Learning Through a Decolonizing Lens
Chapter 7: Don't Forget About the Teachers: Why Teaching Outdoors Benefits the Whole Class
Chapter 8: Forest Schools and Student Well-Being: Providing Opportunities for a Flourishing Life
Chapter 9: Forest Walking: Exploring Arts & the Environment

Part 3: Feeling Comfortable Teaching Outside
Chapter 10: Working Through Discomforts to Find Comfort in Teaching Outside: Exploring Affective Experiences That Shift The Heart
Chapter 11: Empowering Educators: Unlocking Effective Outdoor Teaching Through Personal Outdoor Exploration
Chapter 12: "But I Don't Know Anything About Nature!" – Overcoming Trepidation: Strategies for Those New to Outdoor Education
Chapter 13: Enhancing Comfort and Confidence in Outdoor Teaching in Montessori Classrooms
Chapter 14: Feeling Comfortable with Teaching Outside: Tips and Tricks of the Trade from a Long-Time Outdoor Enthusiast

Part 4: Childhood Outdoor Experiences
Chapter 15: Going Outdoors to Move from a Humancentric World to a World of Living Systems
Chapter 16: Ecological Autobiographies: An Exploration for Educators and Students
Chapter 17: A Pedagogy of Restlessness: Exploring Practices that Support Restless Meaning-Making

Part 5: Administrators' Role in Supporting Outdoor Learning
Chapter 18: School Trip Preparedness: "If you fail to plan, you will plan to fail."
Chapter 19: Administrators: Essential Co-Creators for Successful Outdoor Learning
Chapter 20: Cultivating Learning Beyond the Classroom: Principals as Advocates for Place-Based Outdoor Education
Chapter 21: Growing a Solution: Support Structures for Integrating School Gardens in Science and Environmental Education

Part 6: Leading Students Outdoors
Chapter 22: The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award and the Adventurous Journey in Secondary Schools
Chapter 23: Cultivating Engagement and Gratitude in Outdoor Learning Environments
Chapter 24: Outdoor Learning: Leading the Class

Part 7: Outdoor Learning Resources
Chapter 25: Get INvolved, Get OUTdoors: Teaching and Learning In-the-Yard (ITY)
Chapter 26: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Outdoor Learning: Utilizing Affordances for Enhanced Educational Experiences and Holistic Growth
Chapter 27: Resources for Successful Outdoor Learning

Contributor Biographies
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	1 illustrations - 1 Index
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 248 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-13	9781773385013 / 9781773385013
Zustand	Neuware