Review of 'Children Learning Outside the Classroom: From Birth to Eleven' Waite, Sue (2011). London: Sage; 236 pages. $35.95. ISBN 9780857020482.

Title
Review of 'Children Learning Outside the Classroom: From Birth to Eleven' Waite, Sue (2011). London: Sage; 236 pages. $35.95. ISBN 9780857020482.
Publication Date
2011
Author(s)
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Type of document
Review
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Colorado
Place of publication
United States of America
UNE publication id
une:9265
Abstract
It is a pleasure to provide a review for 'Children Learning Outside the Classroom: From Birth to Eleven', edited by Sue Waite. The book will be of significant value to teachers and teacher educators. In the introduction, Waite notes "that despite evangelical texts extolling the benefits of the outdoors for very young children and a research literature on outdoor education, there was relatively little theory underpinning how and why learning outside the classroom might be beneficial and for what." Amongst the many other things it achieves, the book examines this issue and provides a theoretical perspective for outdoors education in a way that is accessible and informative to practitioners. In 15 chapters the book covers a very diverse range of topics related to outdoor education.
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Citation
Children, Youth and Environments, v.21 (1)
ISSN
1546-2250

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