The place of forest school within English primary schools: senior leader perspectives |
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Authors: | Nicola Kemp Alan Pagden |
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Institution: | Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK |
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Abstract: | Focussing on the place of Forest School in English primary schools, we explore the perspectives of school leaders. We use Biesta's model of educational purpose as a critical lens to consider possible justifications for the inclusion of Forest School in the curriculum. Four distinct accounts, based on an analysis of in-depth interviews, illustrate a range of participant responses: risk, intervention, respite and the right thing. One of these, we contend, represents a tentative step towards a form of resistance on the part of a school leader in the face of current pressures to follow a diminished set of educational purposes. |
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Keywords: | Biesta educational purpose forest school primary schools England |
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