Keynote speaker: Mark Leather

Key-note speaker

Mark Leather è il keynote speaker del Convegno di pedagogia del bosco 2019.

Mark Leather è professore di Outdoor learning e Outdoor education alla Plymouth Marjon University in Gran Bretagna.

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Trascrizione:

My critique of Forest School, an outdoor education brand in the UK kind of a cultural imperialism to go in and have one size that fits all. That doesn’t work for me in education. What I love about Forest School is the child initiated, child centered, play based approaches to outdoor education, and this isn’t really very well articulated, which my article addresses. Really concerning is the corporate turn, the need to commodify, and have an association, and levels of competency to essentially do what a very traditional outdoor education practice is. What I love about the outdoor education approach that we call Forest School is that we are seeing more childen from a younger age with more adults taking them out into nature and for me this can only be a good thing.

Traduzione:

La mia critica alla Forest School [si focalizza sul fatto che] nel Regno Unito questo approccio [sia diventato] un marchio per l’educazione all’aperto, una forma di imperialismo culturale, che viene presentato come adatto a qualunque esigenza.
Secondo me, nel mondo dell’educazione, questo non può funzionare.
Ciò che amo della Forest School sono le attività iniziate e guidate dai bambini, l’enfasi sul gioco spontaneo all’aperto e – come spiego nei miei articoli- questi punti non sono molto sviluppati [nel dibattito sulla Forest School].
Davvero preoccupante è la svolta aziendalista, il bisogno di mercificare, di costruire un ente e stabilire dei livelli di qualifica per poi promuovere nient’altro che una pratica di educazione all’aperto molto tradizionale.
Ciò che amo dell’approccio che chiamiamo Forest School [e che si sta realizzando] è che vediamo sempre più bambini che, fin da piccoli, vengono portati in natura da sempre più adulti e questa non può che essere una cosa positiva.

Bibliografia scelta

Leather, M. (in press). Finding my professional voice: Autobiography as a research method for outdoor studies in B. Humberstone and H. Prince (Eds.). Research Methods in Outdoor Studies. London: Routledge.

Gibson, K. & Leather, M. (in press). Mixed methods research: Paradigmatic considerations for outdoor studies in B. Humberstone and H. Prince (Eds.). Research Methods in Outdoor Studies. London: Routledge.

Leather, M., & Gibson, K. (2019). The consumption and hyperreality of nature: Greater affordances for Outdoor Learning. Curriculum perspectives, 39(1), 79-83. doi: 10.1007/s41297-019-00063-7

Leather, M. (2019). Pasts and Presents Making Connections with the Sea: A Matter of a Personal and Professional Heimat, in K. Peters & M. Brown, (Eds.). Living with the Sea: Knowledge, Awareness and Action.  Routledge Studies in Human Geography.  pp 196-212. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis.  ISBN: 9781138062078

Leather M (2018) Outdoor education in the National Curriculum: the shifting sands in formal education, in P. Becker, B. Humberstone C. Loynes, & J. Schirp, (eds.). The Changing World of Outdoor Learning in Europe. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. (Chapter 12). ISBN: 9781138047662

Leather M (2018) A critique of Forest School: something lost in translation. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 21(1), 5-18.

Leather M (2018) The water environment and informal education, in T. Jeffs & J. Ord (eds) Rethinking Outdoor, Experiential and Informal Education: Beyond the Confines. (Chapter 8) London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415703109

Ord J & Leather M (2018) Experiential Education: The Importance of John Dewey, in T. Jeffs & J. Ord (eds) Rethinking Outdoor, Experiential and Informal Education: Beyond the Confines. (Chapter 3) London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415703109

Leather M (2013) ‘It’s good for their self-esteem’: the substance beneath the label.  Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 13(2), 158-179.

Qui la bibliografia completa delle pubblicazioni.