- Title
- Making connections with nature : Bridging the theory- practice gap in outdoor and environmental education
- Creator
- Preston, Lou
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/42779
- Identifier
- vital:2827
- Identifier
- ISSN:1324-1486
- Abstract
- This paper describes the author's experience in attempting to assist tertiary students connect with the natural environment through outdoor and environmental education experiences. The paper addresses research conducted with students undertaking an outdoor and environmental education degree and focuses on the pedagogical methods employed in this context. It argues that outdoor and environmental education practitioners may benefit from moving away from a mode of teaching based upon 'generic' methods and look instead to a more local, specific and contextual form of education. By describing an outdoor and environmental education journey in a local, 'ordinary' place and students' experiences in unearthing the stories embedded in this place, the paper aims to provide some practical strategies to engage young people in a direct and meaningful way. The intention is to broaden the pedagogical possibilities related to facilitating experiences in natural environments and thus contribute to bridging the rhetoric/reality gap in outdoor education. [Author abstract, ed]
- Publisher
- Australian Outdoor Education Council
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Outdoor Education Vol. 8, no. 1 (2004), p. 12-19
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Outdoor Education Council
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; Environmental education; Field trips; Outdoor education; Teaching methods; Teaching process; Theory practice relationship; Trails; University students; University teaching
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