Outdoor Learning for Children’s Wellbeing
Outdoor learning can have a significant and positive impact on children’s quality of life, but needs to be introduced more formally into global school curricula in order for its potential benefits to be fully realised, a new report suggests.
The Student Outcomes and Natural Schooling report, which was produced by Western Sydney University and Plymouth University in the UK, highlights the many and varied benefits to children of learning in the natural environment, not just from an educational perspective but also in terms of their behaviour, social skills, health and wellbeing, resilience, confidence and sense of place.
But it also says that in an age dominated by a full curriculum, busier family lifestyles and increased fear within society, children are losing the freedom to play, explore and be active in their environment and being denied opportunities that could enhance their long term prospects.
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