What is the point of outdoor learning? Year 2 pupils’ perspectives on the benefits of outdoor learning
Tessa McLeish
(PGCE Early Primary, 2022-2023)
email: tessa.mcleish@cantab.net
Abstract
ands on, meaningful experiences are considered to be an effective base for embedding learning. Outdoor learning appears to offer a successful vehicle for experiential learning, however, research indicates that it is a wide-ranging field in which pedagogy, purpose and approach can vary widely and that the perspectives of educators and facilitators are equally broad. While adult voices are well documented in research on the implementation and outcomes of outdoor learning there is a more minimal body of work that incorporates the opinions and perspectives of children. This small-scale case study proposal seeks to explore and elicit the opinions of children on outdoor learning and consider how these align with wider research. Data will be collected through semi-structured group interviews, questionnaires and observations using the Mosaic approach as a model.
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Citation: McLeish, T. (2024). What is the point of outdoor learning? Year 2 pupils’ perspectives on the benefits of outdoor learning. Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research, Volume 15 pp. 189-210. https://doi.org/
10.17863/CAM.109418