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Amy E. Smallwood – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: Current research in outdoor adventure education advocates for deeper attention to place and the role that place and the more-than-human world play in pedagogical processes. However, historical and socio-cultural analysis of the roots of OAE reveals an educational approach that encourages adversarial human-nature relations toward the…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Place Based Education, Teaching Methods
Jacinta Maxwell; Katie Burke; Yvonne Salton – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
Online learner engagement research has risen internationally due to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in relation to experiential learning. However, this research has focused on the use of technology to access learning about a particular place rather than consider the pedagogical potential of the places in which the learner is located. This study…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Place Based Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Aaron J. McKim; Abbey L. Palmer; R. Bud McKendree; Phillip Warsaw; James DeDecker – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2024
Founded on the principles of place-based education, land-based learning collaboratively engages learners and community members in a four-step process of identification, understanding, intervention, and evaluation to enhance the sustainability of community-based agricultural systems. While scholars have provided the philosophical foundation for…
Descriptors: High School Students, Agricultural Education, Food, School Community Relationship
David Coombs; Shanna Langdon; Zana Jabir; Cathie Burgess; Rose Amazan – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
In this paper, we present findings from the Culturally Nourishing Schooling (CNS) project data, collected during and after a series of experiential and immersive Learning from Country (LFC) activities with teachers working in New South Wales (NSW) schools in Australia. LFC is positioned as the critical first step in the CNS whole-school reform…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Change
Sara Knight; Janine Kim Coates; Judith Lathlean; Rossana Perez-del-Aguila – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
A growing evidence base has demonstrated the value of Forest School as an outdoor learning approach which supports a range of benefits including improved physical, social and mental wellbeing, increased confidence and self-esteem and the development of problem-solving skills. However, critics of Forest School have argued that a lack of theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Forestry, Outdoor Education, Experiential Learning
Kyla Flanagan; Lisa R. Stowe; Christine Martineau; Natasha Kenny; Erin Kaipainen – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
In Canada, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission highlights our roles as educators to reflect Indigenous cultures and knowledges in post-secondary teaching and learning. Developing an inclusive definition of experiential learning in consultation with Indigenous scholars is essential. This newly revised experiential learning framework represents…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods, Holistic Approach, Indigenous Knowledge
Marom, Lilach; Rattray, Curtis – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
This paper focuses on the meaning of education for reconciliation in the context of Canadian settler-colonialism. It captures an attempt to delve into the meaning of reconciliation as an experiential process, through learning on the land with the Tahltan People. We focus on reconciliation not as a theory or political discourse, but rather as a…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Foreign Policy, Land Settlement, Experiential Learning
Hamilton, Erica; Marckini-Polk, Lisa – Cogent Education, 2023
This article centers on the use of place-based education (PBE), an internationally known and employed pedagogy. This yearlong, mixed-methods study centers on a grant-funded program aimed at supporting secondary teachers' implementation of environmental place-based education (PBE), specifically meaningful watershed education experiences (MWEEs).…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods, Grants
Li, Wei-Ting; Shein, Paichi Pat – Environmental Education Research, 2023
The life experiences of Indigenous students are often overlooked in school learning, thereby causing dissonance in learning. To address this issue, this study incorporated local and traditional ecological knowledges of community in this year-long course of 'place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development', using place-based design…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Indigenous Populations, Teacher Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
Nahanee, Larry; Nahanee, Chiaxten Wes; Yumagulova, Lilia; Sperry, Kathleen; Reynolds, Jonathon – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
This article is about the Squamish Ocean Canoe Family and is based on stories shared by the Skwxwú7mesh Chiaxten ("Protocol Keeper"), Wes Nahanee, and the President of the Squamish Ocean Canoe Family, Larry (Shucks) Nahanee. The article tells the story of a revival of the Skwxwú7mesh ocean-going canoe and traditions, particularly through…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Indigenous Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education
Seow, Tricia; Chang, Julian; Neil Irvine, Kim – Journal of Geography, 2019
For school geography in Singapore, geographical inquiry is identified as a "signature pedagogy" (Shulman 2005a) that can socialize students into the distinctive practices, concepts, and values of the discipline of geography. This article explores how field-based inquiry is applied across four secondary schools in Singapore to develop an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Inquiry, Experiential Learning
Nichols, Bryan H.; Caplow, Susan; Franzen, Rebecca L.; McClain, Lucy R.; Pennisi, Lisa; Tarlton, Jennifer L. – Environmental Education Research, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic surged and resurged across the world, members of a higher education professional group associated with the North American Association of Environmental Education met regularly online to discuss challenges and strategies to cope with the sudden shifts to remote learning. Six environmental education (EE) instructors, from…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, School Closing
Hooykaas, Amanda – Journal of Geography, 2021
Place-based education is common in elementary school geography curriculums where children are taught about their surroundings. Emphasizing hands-on, real-world learning experiences, this approach creates heightened commitment to serving as active, contributing citizens. By post-secondary school, geography students collectively pursue knowledge…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Place Based Education, Teaching Methods, Global Approach
Pilgrim, Karyn; Woo, Kevin L. – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2021
Ecological learning is enriched when students can apply course content to their own communities and gain an understanding and experience for deploying sustainable practices. Such merging of content, application, and place requires an interdisciplinary approach to grapple with the ecological and cultural issues more holistically that sustainability…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education
Akkaya Yilmaz, Mavi; Karakus, Ufuk – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2018
The objective of this research is to examine the effectiveness of teaching the 6th grade (12-13 years old) social studies lessons' unit "Our Country's Resources" by place based teaching method on student achievement. This research was conducted in 2013-2014 academic year for six weeks in a public secondary school in Milas. In this…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Social Studies, Place Based Education, Program Effectiveness