Forest schools: moving towards an alternative pedagogical response to the Anthropocene?

In this paper I consider whether forest schools provide a space where we could rethink pedagogy in the Anthropocene. I explore the challenges and possibilities of thinking beyond the business-as-usual of human-centric pedagogies drawing upon an ethnographic study of two forest schools, located in th...

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Publicado en:Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 427 - 441
Autor principal: Mycock, Katherine
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2020
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