'Do you need a kayak to learn outside?': a literature review into learning outside the classroom. Issue 3 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hawxwell, L.; O'Shaughnessy, M.; Russell, C.; Shortt, D.
• Is Part Of: Education 3-13. Volume 47:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 322
• Page End: 332
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Outdoors -- provision -- learning -- curriculum -- practices; Education -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Education, Primary -- Periodicals; Education, Elementary -- Periodicals; 372.942
• DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2018.1444074
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0300-4279

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a review of research focusing on 'Learning Outside the Classroom' (LOtC). We provide a distillation of international research in this field that identifies how future investigations could be focused and move the discipline forward. As a consequence of the breadth of our study, we feel our findings will have applications in educational settings across the globe. What we discover is a significant bias towards types of learning that largely cannot be measured, and that only a minority of published research in our review pays the level of attention to theoretical and philosophical foundations found in most other educational research.