Thrive Outdoors Place-based Walkshops – Glasgow and Perth
Step into a new way of seeing the world with children. Thrive Outdoors offer the following place-based pedagogy walkshops (fee charged): 25.10.25 Glasgow Buy tickets – Thrive Outdoors - Place-based Walkshop, Glasgow – Elder Park Library and Park 27.9.25 Perth Buy tickets – Thrive Outdoors - Place-based Walkshop, Perth – [...]
The new Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education Vol 28(1) available now!
The Forest School Association have signposted the following papers in the Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education: The following 3 papers are Open Access (free): Learning to embrace outdoor pedagogy: early childhood education student experiences of a nature-focused practicum, Elizabeth Boileau, Linda O’Donoghue; Exploring the effects of a short-term, nature-based [...]
Making the invisible visible: the pedagogical affordances of outdoor learning in a nursery and a primary school.
This interesting paper (February 2025) discusses findings of a grassroots, Participatory Action Research methodology developed with pedagogues from a nursery and a primary school in England, to generate knowledge about ways of supporting children’s learning outdoors. Drawing on an ecological framework, partners video-record themselves in-action, then watched and reflected on [...]
Plants, architecture, and pedagogy in contemporary green schools
Re-naturalizing the built environment. Plants, architecture, and pedagogy in contemporary green schools (L Chiesi et al. - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities) discusses the essential need of re-naturalizing the built environment, focusing on schools.
Educating the temporal imagination: Teaching time for justice in a warming world
This article by Kerri Facer, published online 29 August 2024 explores how ‘teaching time’ can support the awareness of and attention to (in)justice in a warming world. The paper discusses the limits of current approaches to teaching time in education and explores a range of practices. It concludes by working [...]
Doctoral Researcher Perspective: Forest School Research Symposium
Read this Forest School Association guest blog post (1 August 2024) reflecting on the first international Forest School Research Symposium. This also refers to ‘how a practice similar to UK ‘Forest School’ is delivered in around the world (Ireland, Israel, Italy), and arguments made about learning from the rise of [...]
Forest School pedagogy research in Ireland
The Forest School Association have shared a research article abstract written by Joan Whelan & Orla Kelly (2023): Experiential, relational, playful pedagogy in Irish primary schools – possibilities offered by Forest School. This shares findings from the first national survey of Forest School pedagogy in Ireland, conducted in 2019–2020 as [...]
Slow Pedagogy: How to be ‘slow’ outdoors
Alison Clark explores ‘slow pedagogy’ in this Nursery World article (24 October 2024). What does this looks like for children and practitioners when taken outdoors?
