Outdoor Learning in the Early Years: Management and Innovation

This book is the ultimate guide to outdoor learning for early years students and practitioners, covering everything from outdoor environments to inclusion, communication, literacy, and mathematics skills. It includes links to the revised EYFS, discussion questions, practical examples, and ideas and activities for working outdoors.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 01 January 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive guide provides a thorough exploration of creating effective outdoor environments, encompassing every aspect of outdoor learning and emphasizing the vital role of outdoor play in children's development. In its fourth edition, this text has undergone a thorough update, featuring new chapters on inclusion and early childhood education, as well as additional material on developing children's communication, literacy, and mathematical skills. Additionally, it addresses gender equality and collaboration with parents. The book includes valuable links to the revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), engaging discussion questions, practical examples to bring the theory to life, and a wealth of ideas and activities for engaging in outdoor learning. It serves as an indispensable textbook for all early years students and practitioners interested in fostering outdoor learning experiences.

Offering a complete guide to creating effective outdoor environments, this book covers every aspect of outdoor learning and fully explains the importance of outdoor play to childrens development. This fourth edition has been thoroughly updated and features new chapters on inclusion and the under threes, as well as extra material on developing childrens communication, literacy, and mathematic skills, gender, and working with parents. Including links to the revised EYFS, engaging discussion questions, practical examples to bring the theory to life, and a multitude of ideas and activities for working outdoors, this is the definitive textbook on outdoor learning for all early years students and practitioners.

This comprehensive guide provides a thorough exploration of creating effective outdoor environments, encompassing every aspect of outdoor learning and emphasizing the vital role of outdoor play in children's development. In its fourth edition, this text has undergone a thorough update, featuring new chapters on inclusion and early childhood education, as well as additional material on developing children's communication, literacy, and mathematical skills. Additionally, it addresses gender equality and collaboration with parents. The book includes valuable links to the revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), engaging discussion questions, practical examples to bring the theory to life, and a wealth of ideas and activities for engaging in outdoor learning. It serves as an indispensable textbook for all early years students and practitioners interested in fostering outdoor learning experiences.

Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138840515
Edition number: 4 New edition