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This open access book which focuses on curriculum-based high-quality learning
Enables decision makers to evaluate benefits of outdoor learning
Highlights the benefits of outdoor teaching
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Teacher Competencies in Focus
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International Perspectives and Case Studies
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Front Matter
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About this book
This open access book reviews evidence and case studies on the effects of outdoor learning on teachers and learners. It shows how real-world learning outside the classroom contributes to unlocking the full potential of learners, demonstrating its benefits for academic learning, social competencies, personal and emotional development, psychological well-being, and physical activity and health. In addition, the book highlights how outdoor learning nurtures environmental awareness and helps learners to tackle current sustainability challenges. Its focus on high-quality learning makes it a unique contribution to the implementation of SDG 4. Aimed at lecturers at teacher training universities, teachers, professional educators, coaches, and multipliers who train staff of educational NGOs, as well as decision makers on all levels of education systems, this book is of interest to all those who seek a more in-depth understanding of the future of education.
Keywords
- Outdoor-based learning
- high-quality learning
- place-based learning
- experiential learning
- environmental education
- outdoor education
- education outside the classroom (EOtC)
- Open Access
- TEACHOUT research project
- Outdoor Learning and Children’s Eyesight
- Impacts on health and wellbeing from outdoor learning
- Teacher’s competences for teaching outside the classroom
- Nature-Based Learning
- Childhood nature connection
- School-based outdoor learning
- SDG 4
- Sustainable Development Goals 4
Editors and Affiliations
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SILVIVA–Swiss Foundation for Nature-based Learning, Zürich, Switzerland
Rolf Jucker
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Englisches Institut Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Jakob von Au
About the editors
Dr Rolf Jucker is currently Director of the Swiss Foundation for Nature-based Learning (SILVIVA) and a learning for sustainability expert, having previously served as Director of the Swiss Foundation for Environmental Education from 2008 to 2012. He gained an MSc in Education for Sustainability (EfS) and has worked and published extensively on education for a viable future.
Dr Jakob von Au currently works at the Englisches Institut Heidelberg as a teacher and at the University of Education Heidelberg, Germany, as a lecturer in Outdoor Teaching and Education for Sustainable Development. He wrote his PhD on Outdoor Learning and is the co-editor of the first substantial collection of research on outdoor-based learning in German
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High-Quality Outdoor Learning
Book Subtitle: Evidence-based Education Outside the Classroom for Children, Teachers and Society
Editors: Rolf Jucker, Jakob von Au
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04108-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04107-5Published: 31 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04110-5Published: 31 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04108-2Published: 30 July 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 386
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 73 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sport Education and Didactics, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Science Education, Alternative Education, Human Geography