Adventure education and outdoor learning

Changes in outdoor learning in primary schools in England, 1995 and 2017: lessons for good practice

“…The apparent increased use of residentials over the 22 years is interesting, given the decline in local authority funded outdoor centres in the UK. It could be that some schools interested in outdoor learning opportunities have benefitted from national initiatives such as 'Learning Away' in which consortia of schools used funding to provide residential opportunities (Kendall & Rodger, 2015) Students in mainstream schooling are shown to benefit from residential experiences (Christie, Higgins & MacLauglin, 2014) but the increased engagement illustrated by these data is not reflected in published research (Prince et al, 2018). <Table 3 here> There appears to have been a change in the subject areas in which outdoor learning is integrated at the two time points in this study.…”

Outdoor education as a deep education for global sustainability and social justice

“…friluftsliv). However, all cultures view outdoor practice as space in nature for people to participate in sport, activities and/or experiences towards a broad spectrum of inclusive and pluralistic outcomes, cross-cultural perspectives, environmental and social justice, and trans/inter-disciplinary and formal/non-formal learning contributions (Prince et al, 2018).…”

Publishing and disseminating outdoor studies research

“…It is one of the key metrics used in judging the quality of articles included in such journals and hence important for researchers involved in such assessments as the REF. Unfortunately, due to outdoor studies being a relatively young and small area of research and the comparatively recent development of its academic journals (Prince et al, 2018), the 'impact factor' of publishing in any of the main international outdoor journals has tended to be considerably less than others with a broader discipline base. Brookes & Stewart (2016) also reviewed the citation patterns of outdoor education journals 2000-2013 to suggest "with the exception of a few articles, any impact of Outdoor Education (OE) research and scholarship outside of the OE journals, theses, or OE conferences, is highly diffuse" (p. 12).…”

“…There is now a wide range of publishing outlets for outdoor studies research and an increasing number of quality academic journals. Publishers are becoming more sophisticated and finding new ways to access a wide readership (see Prince, Christie, Humberstone & Gurholt, 2018;Taylor & Francis, 2018). These include having on-line and Open Access options as well as print presence (e.g.…”