What can Outdoor Education teach all Educators about Education?
Details:
11:30 am – 12:20 pm
5th of December
Room: 4N-120
John Quay
Outdoor education works educationally via experience, we all know that. But three things stand in the way of this awareness having a greater influence.
1. A better framing of experience.
2. A better application of this framing in articulation of outdoor education units and programs.
3. A better transfer of this framing to the work of all educators in all education institutions: schools, universities, etc.
Outdoor education can lead the way in reframing education, but to do so, the words we use to describe how we do things and what we achieve educationally must evolve to include being, alongside doing and knowing.
In this presentation I shall make the case for an expanded view of experience and show how this can impact the ways we describe outdoor education, as well as the ways this impacts education more broadly.
About the Presenter
I am a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Since early days at teacher’s college, I have wondered why we do things the way we do. Outdoor education opened my eyes to many possibilities, beyond the straight jacket of indoor education. I continued to question in this direction, leading me to think and read a lot more about experience, with the belief that the better we understand experience, the better we understand outdoor education and education more broadly. I have written articles and books to share these ideas. I am also an editor-in-chief of our journal, the Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education.
