Outdoor Education
A Pathway to Experiential, Environmental, and Sustainable Learning
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"This is a superb book, and does a wonderful job of relating the current state of research related to outdoor, environmental, and place-based education. The book provides a roadmap showing others to identify problems, develop research questions, put together data, and disseminate information to third parties."
—Joan Franklin Smutny, Founding Director of the Center for Gifted, a Northern Illinois University Partner, and Director of the Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity
Stephen T. Schroth is Professor of Early Childhood Education/Gifted & Creative Education at Towson University, USA. He is the author of eight monographs, multiple book chapters, and numerous articles, and has taught pre-service teachers and graduate students for over twenty five years.
This book explores the phenomenon of outdoor education, an approach that permits children from all backgrounds to explore environmental, sustainability, and other issues facing them and their communities. Organized around both the conceptual and the practical issues facing school leaders interested in outdoor education, the book provides a wealth of resources for those interested in implementing outdoor education in their schools or classrooms. Infinitely flexible, outdoor education provides a lens through which teachers may explore any content area with any age group of children. Providing readers with both the theoretical underpinnings that support place-based curriculum as well as practical ways to implement an outdoor education program, the book also provides seven case studies that examine the issues facing school leaders desiring to make such a change. Outdoor Education: A Pathway to Experiential, Environmental, and Sustainable Learning guides those interested inexploring outdoor education through the curricular, instructional, and policy considerations needed to accomplish this goal.
Examines practical ways to design an effective outdoor education program Provides a comprehensive overview of the history and theory underpinning the field of outdoor education Features original data from a study of an outdoor education program in a middle-Atlantic region public school district
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Stephen T. Schroth
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Alternative education Environmental education Education for Sustainable Development Experiential learning Forest schools Green education project-based learning
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“This is a superb book, and does a wonderful job of relating the current state of research related to outdoor, environmental, and place-based education. The book provides a roadmap showing others to identify problems, develop research questions, put together data, and disseminate information to third parties. The book is really quite wonderful in its practicality in outdoor, environmental, and place-based education.” (Joan Franklin Smutny, Founding Director of the Center for Gifted, a Northern Illinois University Partner, and Director of the Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity)
“It is so important that student learning experiences extend beyond the four walls and fluorescent lights of a typical classroom. Schroth encourages collaborative learning communities to take learning outside and to overcome the challenges facing educators seeking to engage students with nature. Outdoor Education offers both the why and the how in an engaging format.” (Dr. Bill Sterrett, Baylor University, Educational Leadership Professor and Chair, Author of Insights into Action)
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