Teaching in the field : working with students in the outdoor classroom / edited by Hal Crimmel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crimmel, Hal, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fieldwork (Educational method).

Outdoor education.

Literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2003]

Summary:

Taking students out of the classroom and into a variety of settings -- from remote wilderness sites to urban or built environments -- is now recognized as a valuable means of teaching ecological concepts and environmental values, and of encouraging cross-disciplinary explorations. Teaching in the Field is the first volume to specifically survey field studies conducted through colleges and universities. The essays present pedagogical strategies and foundational advice within engaging, candid narratives that report on various aspects of field experiences, whether hour-long excursions or month-long trips. Teachers will find here a wealth of success stories and cautionary tales to guide them in envisioning their own outdoor classrooms.

Contents:

Teaching in the Field: An Introduction / Hal Crimmel 1

Part I Why Go?: Justifying Teaching Outdoors

"To See Things in Their Wholeness": Consilience, Natural History, and Teaching Literature Outdoors / Robert E. Burkholder 17

Teaching the Desert: The Literature of Landscape in and out of Place / Charles Mitchell 33

Going to Basho's Pine: Wilderness Education for the Twenty-first Century / R. Edward Grumbine 49

Where Passions Intertwine: Teaching, Literature, and the Outdoors / Alan Brew 63

Engaging Nature: A Canadian Case Study of Learning in the Outdoors / Brent Cuthbertson, Janet Dyment, Lesley P. Curthoys, Tom G. Potter, Tim O'Connell 77

Part II Strategies for Teaching

Can't See the Forest or the Trees: Finding Focus / Katherine R. Chandler 103

Writing the Watershed / Laird Christensen 124

Teaching Environmental Values through Creative Writing with School Children / Terry Gifford 137

Going Out as a Way In: Social, Cultural, and Ecological Learning and the University Field Trip / Liz Newbery, Bob Henderson 152

On the Path, Off the Trail: Teaching Nature Writing as a Practice of the Wild / Fred Taylor 172

Road Trip: Self-Directed Field Work as a Learning Journey / Andrew Wingfield 192

Part III Field Considerations: Issues to Consider in Planning and Execution

Facing the Challenge: Overcoming the Common Obstacles to Running a Successful Field Studies Course / Corey Lee Lewis 207

In Thoreau's Wake on the West Branch / Allison B. Wallace 223

Woodswomen and "Super Studs": Gender Issues in a Northwoods Environmental Studies Program / Britain A. Scott, Steven M. Hoffman 241

Building Community on a Budget in the Big Bend of Texas / Barbara "Barney" Nelson 265

Urban Nature as a Scene of Instruction / John Tallmadge 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.

ISBN:

087480762X

OCLC:

51886342