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Forest School and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years

Second Edition


June 2013 | 176 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Outdoor learning continues to play an essential role in early years education, and this new edition of a bestselling book explores how the Forest School approach can be easily and effectively incorporated into early years practice.

Expanding on aspects of Forest School teaching, and drawing on new developments and policy changes within the field, this new edition also includes:

- a new chapter on working with parents

- greater coverage of the 0-2 age range

- new case studies to aid learning

- coverage of international approaches to Forest School

Yet again Sara Knight delivers an inspirational text for all those working in or studying early years education and care.

Sara Knight is an experienced early years educator and Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University. She is a trained Forest School practitioner and author of Forest Schools For All and Risk and Adventure in Early Years Outdoor Play (both published by SAGE).

 
Contextualising Forest School
 
What Makes a Forest School?
 
Exercise, Fresh Air and Learning
 
Working with Parents and Carers
 
Seeing the Links
 
Participating in Forest School
 
Getting the Forest School Ethos into Settings
 
Forest School with Other Groups and in Other Countries
 
Outcomes from Forest School Participation - Some Research
 
Appendix: Providers of Forest School Training
 
Glossary
 
References and Bibliography
 
Index

Good for planning and working out for outdoor activities and ideas

Mrs Ellen Smallbones
Care and Early Years, Tresham Institute
June 27, 2013

Good reading as an extension project and particularly good for linking to physical development.

Mrs Sharon Lock
Comm, Adult Education Centre
June 25, 2013

A very useful addition to the reading list for students considering school-based research in this sphere.

Gwenda Scriven
Inst of Education, Worcester University
June 13, 2013
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