Campaigns
Related Research and Reports
- Initial Teacher Education and the Outdoor Classroom: Standards for the Future (PDF document)
- Our Response to the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto
- A Review of Research on Outdoor Learning
- Biology Fieldwork: Is it Heading for Extinction?
- Creating the right balance: Delivering fieldwork for effective 16-19 ecology teaching
- Secondary Science Fieldwork Survey
Projects
Outdoor Classroom
The FSC offers residential and day fieldwork courses for ages 7-14, 14-16, 16+ and University, including Scottish and Irish schools
Why not join the FSC?
Over the last 60 years the FSC has touched the hearts and minds of individuals of all ages. By becoming a member, you can help us to reach even more people.
Find out more about joining the FSC
You may also be interested in:
A Review of Research on Outdoor Learning
National Foundation for Educational Research
Introduction
There is growing concern that opportunities for outdoor learning by school students in England have decreased substantially in recent years. In response to this, and recent government calls for ‘schools to make better use of the outdoor classroom as a context for teaching and learning’, the Field Studies Council (FSC) and several partner organisations commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to undertake a review of research on outdoor learning.
This document summarises the key findings of this review, which critically examined 150 pieces of research on outdoor learning published in English between 1993 and 2003.
- Read the
executive summary of the report. (You must have Adobe Acrobat
to view the report.)
- A full version of the report is available from FSC Publications for £8 plus £2 P&P. Find out more, and order online.
