Learning outdoors
A new review of Creative Place-Based Environmental Education has appeared in the AHPB Magazine for Self & Society (published by the Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain).
This book is an essential practical guide to anyone wishing to free education from its meaningless role as a political and social tool, and to think about what kind of educational experience we will need for the uncertain future facing young people today. This book gives some practical examples of how this might be achieved, as well as some very useful theoretical models of how to think and achieve affective place-based leaning. Although we may not all have access to the kind of landscape accessible to the Aurland project, this book provides a practical and innovative approach to thinking about the kind of practical and experiential education that may well meet the needs of future generations, wherever they are.
Roger Duncan is a Systemic Family Psychotherapist and author who has been involved in nature-based practice for 30 years.
Read his whole review here (PDF).
Creative Place-Based Environmental Education: Children and Schools as Ecopreneurs for Change
Jorunn Barane, Aksel Hugo, Morten Clemetsen
How can schools become creative hubs for enriching the community, for caring for nature, the landscape and place? This book presents the why, what and how of creative place-based education as action researched successfully by educators in Norway.
