by Nic Harding | 29 Aug, 2024 | Guest Blog, Members' news, News, Research
Morgan Barr, Loughborough University Being a Forest School leader can be isolating, advocating for something you passionately believe in, that outsiders claim to understand but rarely do. Seeing the impact firsthand but explaining how and why it works can be...
by Nic Harding | 23 Aug, 2024 | Guest Blog, Members' news, News, Research
By Lauren Bourn Autistic learners are often viewed by educational professionals as having complex and diverse support needs. A report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism (APPGA, 2017) found that half of autistic young people felt their teachers did not know...
by Nic Harding | 1 Aug, 2024 | Conference, Guest Blog, Members' news, News, Research
Hannah Myers, Loughborough University “I’ve only waited twenty years for this” Sara Knight began as she welcomed practitioners and researchers to the first International Forest School Research Symposium. It was a poignant moment, and a long time coming, in recognising...
by Nic Harding | 22 Feb, 2024 | Members' news, News, Research, Uncategorized
Report of a survey on ForestSchool and Outdoor Learning in England Sylva Foundation The Bringing Children Closer to Nature survey (2018) aims to explore barriers and opportunities to activities in wooded areas and forests, including the practice of Forest...
by Gareth Davies | 27 Oct, 2022 | Conference, FSA Resources, KB Subject, KB tag, News, Research
Important lessons about the richness of the theoretical underpinnings of Forest School thatcould inform our future … By Sara Knight, October 2022 For those who don’t know me, I’m the FS leader that writes. And rabbits. I have delivered at least 20...
by Gareth Davies | 2 Mar, 2017 | Report, Research
A report produced for Natural England (Report 2 of 2), May 2010 Nicola D. Ridgers – Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University Jo Sayers – The Mersey Forest [wpfilebase tag=file id=13...
by Gareth Davies | 2 Mar, 2017 | Report, Research
A report produced for Natural England (Report 1 of 2), May 2010 Nicola D. Ridgers – Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University Jo Sayers – The Mersey Forest [wpfilebase tag=file id=12...
by Gareth Davies | 2 Mar, 2017 | Report, Research
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by Gareth Davies | 2 Mar, 2017 | Case Study, Guidance Note, Research
The FSA is a growing repository for practitioner-research, with the intention of building a body of evidence that can contribute to our developing understanding of Forest School. Please see the following document, which explains the research rational behind this:...
