- Title
- Pedagogy of connections : Findings of a collaborative action research project in outdoor and environmental education
- Creator
- Preston, Lou; Griffiths, Amma
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/60357
- Identifier
- vital:2826
- Identifier
- ISSN:1324-1486
- Abstract
- Improving human-nature relationships is often a stated aim of outdoor education, yet this aim is not always made explicit in practice. This paper reflects on a pedagogical intervention which aims to find ways to explicitly develop students' connections with natural places through a tertiary outdoor and environmental education program. It describes the intervention process, which is guided by principles of collaborative action research. Furthermore, the intervention uses a multi-pronged teaching approach incorporating repeated visits to natural places utilising different 'ways of knowing', weekly readings, journal writing, collaborative discussions, and others. The paper summarizes the key findings of the research project and report that repeated visits to a natural place using different ways of knowing (e.g., historical, scientific, ecological, artistic, experiential, etc) are influential in improving connections. It concludes with a discussion of the opportunities and dilemmas of using action research as a form of pedagogy. [Author abstract, ed]
- Publisher
- Australian Outdoor Education Council
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Outdoor Education Vol. 8, no. 2 (2004), p. 36-45
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Outdoor Education Council
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; Action research; Educational objectives; Environmental education; Outdoor education; Teaching process
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