1st Edition

The Ocean, Blue Spaces and Outdoor Learning

Edited By Mike Brown Copyright 2024
272 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the educational dimension of people’s engagement with the ocean. Across formal, informal, and nonformal learning contexts, it examines how experiences of the ocean and ‘blue spaces’ help us to understand ourselves, others, and our place within the natural environment, and the place of the ocean in our sociocultural and political life. Drawing on creative projects from around... Read more

Part I: Blue Space: Connections, Community, and Well-being 

1. Surfing, Ocean Identities, and Well-being in Aotearoa New Zealand

Belinda Wheaton 

2. Learning to Surf: Women Migrants’ Stories of Engaging with the Ocean

Charlotte Jelleyman and Barbara Humberstone 

3. Recounting Encounter: Ocean Swimming, Multispecies Ecologies, and More-than-ocean-literacies

Rebecca Olive 

4. Drawn Together by the Sea: Swimming, Waves, and Well-being

Charlotte Bates and Kate Moles 

5. The Deep Blue: Learning from Wilderness Experiences in Ocean Sailing

Mark Orams 

6. Water Symphonies: Teaching Silent Soundscapes and Tranquillity

Tuva B. Broch, Rose Keller, and Evi Petersen 

7. A Polluted Leisure Pedagogy in Seascape Wastelands

Clifton Evers 

8. Children’s Active Living by the Sea: New Coastal Environments in Denmark

Søren Andkjær and Jan Arvidsen 

9. Cultures of Managing Hazard and Play: Guarding Life in the Littoral Zone

Jon Anderson and Dan Sorley 

Part II: Experiencing Blue Spaces in Educational Settings 

10. Sail Training: Perspectives of Sea Going Staff

Eric Fletcher and Heather Prince 

11. Setting Sail to Response-ability: Sail Training through and for the Sea

Alun Morgan and Mike Brown 

12. We Sail for Stories: Fifty Years of the Blue Humanities at Sea Education Association (SEA)

Jeff Wescott, Richard King and Erin Bryant 

13. All at Sea: Living the Tension of Mobility and Place

Chris Loynes 

14. Visualising Seascapes: Encounters in Higher Education

Mark Leather and TA Loeffler 

15. Students of the Sea: Tauira O Te Moana

Mark Jones, Charlotte Jelleyman and Mike Brown 

16. Tēnā koe (that is you): Meeting the Ocean Dwelling Other

David Irwin, Adam Brasell, Raquelle De Vine, and Rachael Pelvin

 

Biography

Mike Brown is Associate Professor of Outdoor Learning at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. His research and teaching interests have been in the area of learning in outdoor contexts with a particular focus on the marine environment. He has co-edited Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea (with Barbara Humberstone) and Living with the Sea: Knowledge, Awareness and Action (with Kimberley Peters). He has several commercial maritime qualifications and is an active sailor and kayaker. He serves on the board of several charitable trusts that provide outdoor experiences to young New Zealanders.