1st Edition
Theorising the Quiet Power of Forest School A Posthuman Framing of Regular, Repeated, Unstructured Practice in Nature
By Joanna Hume
Copyright 2026
168 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This highly novel volume reframes the popular, yet sorely under-theorised international education movement known as forest school, offering an interdisciplinary framework with which to set apart forest school from other outdoor education programmes and child-led pedagogies.
By broadly defining forest school as regular, repeated, unstructured practice in nature, the book is able to link the... Read more
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why Forest School?
Chapter 2: Frequency: diffracting forest school through/with time
Chapter 3: Familiarity: diffracting forest school through/with space
Chapter 4: Freedom: diffracting forest school through/with matter
Chapter 5: Insights from an intra-relationship with nature
Chapter 6: Towards forest school finding its power
Biography
Joanna Hume is a BERA ERC-award-winning author and Assistant Professor in the School of Communities and Education at Northumbria University, UK.
