{"id":7081,"date":"2017-10-27T05:15:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T05:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2017-10-27T05:16:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T05:16:39","slug":"27-oct-outdoor-learning-learning-in-natural-environments-etc-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/10\/27\/27-oct-outdoor-learning-learning-in-natural-environments-etc-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor learning, learning in natural environments, etc \u2013 part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/10\/26\/26-oct-outdoor-learning-learning-in-natural-environments-etc-part-1\/\">Yesterday<\/a>, I wrote about this minute from a strategic research group meeting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Group agreed that there was no meaningful way to delineate between outdoor learning, environmental education and learning in natural environments, and that all were relevant and useful ways of teaching and learning to support wider Education for Sustainable Development.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>... and I persuaded myself that it\u00a0<em>could be<\/em> meaningful to delineate between outdoor learning \/ learning in natural environments (on the one hand) and\u00a0environmental education (on the other). \u00a0This was because\u00a0environmental education had, one way or another, a purpose relating to the environment and \/ or nature. \u00a0In other words, it's inherently teleological whereas the other two are not.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good (I think), but what about the rest of the statement which I'm summarising as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"\u00a0... outdoor learning, environmental education and learning in natural environments ... [are all] relevant and useful ways of teaching and learning to support wider Education for Sustainable Development.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I suppose my first objection is that there's no need to introduce a piece of contested jargon into this debate. \u00a0Secondly, and much more significantly, it's not\u00a0Education for Sustainable Development that is being supported by all this; rather it's learners and their learning. \u00a0Thus we might write\"<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"\u00a0... outdoor learning, environmental education and learning in natural environments ... [are all] relevant and useful ways of helping people learn about the natural world and people's relationships with it and with each other.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although I think I'd rewrite this as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"In their different ways, environmental education, outdoor learning, learning in natural environments, global learning, etc are all relevant and useful ways of helping people learn about the natural world, people's dependency on it, their troubled relationships with it, and with each other.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not everyone would include the last of these \u2013 but I would as it seems to me that human disputes have grave social and environmental consequences.<\/p>\n<p>There's more on all this next week as my thoughts turn to GEEP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wrote about this minute from a strategic research group meeting: \"Group agreed that there was no meaningful way to delineate between outdoor learning, environmental education and learning in natural environments, and that all were relevant and useful ways...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}