Forest School and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years

By Sara A. Knight. 2009

198 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Looks at the opportunities the Forest School experience can offer young children for learning outdoors and how this fits into the early years curriculum. Offers guidance on what the Forest School approach can achieve and shows how to incorporate good practice into all outdoor play activities.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Social Psychology

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. F. Harris
2. Sue Elliott
3. B. Chancellor

In Social Psychology

1. F. Harris
2. Sue Elliott
3. B. Chancellor

Citations in the corpus

• From Forest Preschool to Bush Kinder: An Inspirational Approach to Preschool Provision in Australia (2014, background): “Originating in Scandinavia in the 1950s, this approach has now spread to the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and Canada (Borradaile, 2006; Knight, 2009, 2013; Moore & Cooper-Marcus, 2008).”
• The nature of learning at forest school: practitioners' perspectives (2017, background): “These studies suggest forest school aims to contribute to learning in a range of ways: in addition to learning about the environment children learn social skills and citizenship skills (Swarbrick, Eastwood, and Tutton 2004; Knight 2009), and it aims to support physical and mental health (Maynard 200”