Tag: Outdoor Learning
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Podcast show notes. Season 1 Episode 1
Unpacking the Journey: A Vision for Education Reform Introduction: Welcome to the inaugural episode of my podcast, the episode that sheds light on the man behind the microphone. In this episode, we’ll delve into my personal journey, the diverse projects I’ve worked on, and the unique perspective I’ve gained working with learners facing challenges, especially…
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The Power of Metacognition in outdoor learning
Firstly what is metacognition? The act of thinking about thinking. It is being aware of yourself within the thinking and learning process. When you are able to be conscious of the learning taking place you are able to use that learning process as a toolkit to learn other things in other contexts. This is immensely…
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Experiential Learning: An Overview
Experiential learning is fundamentally based on engagement, the experience, and the relation of the learner to it is the formation of the learning, but it is important to understand first what the engagement is with. Bowen (2005) suggests 4 broad categories of engagement as being, In a broader sense there is a clear correlation here…
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A Holistic Approach to Education: An Introduction
A holistic approach is a theme that has consistently run through the previous sections, it is integral to the arguments made for the changes in education, however it is worth focus here to expand further on the benefits, pedagogy and purpose of making education holistic. Fundamentally the pedagogy suggests that a holistic approach should be…
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A Learner Led Approach: The Basics
If the holistic nature of education provided by experiential learning and a project based approach are assumed, then the focus of education is on the interplay between a cohesive model of learning, and the individual learning it. Experiential learning places the emphasis on holistic learning that by its nature focusses also on the moral, spiritual,…
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Project Based Learning: An Overview
Project based learning builds upon the foundation of experiential learning by following the pedagogy through to the level of what is being taught; where experiential learning forms the basis of a holistic view of learning where learners and learning are not seen as discreet, a project-based approach is the foundation of embedding this across the…
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Outdoor Learning: Why it should be ‘as Standard’
For millions of years, throughout human history, all learning was outdoors. It is only relatively recently that we have decided in our culture to see learning in enclosed classroom spaces as somehow essential. It should not be the case that we educate in such a way as to make ease of teaching the central focus,…
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Outdoor, Learner Led, Project Based and Experiential Learning: The Background that brings us to now.
The problems facing education are not new, nor are the concepts for innovative change, in fact the Distinguished Professor E. E. Erikson of Utah spoke of the innovations necessary in education in 1971 in New York (McMurrin 1971). 50 years on and we are still trying to meet the challenge of changing education through innovation.…
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