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It can be said that in outdoor education, there is a certain way that embraces complex qualities and values. Let me explain. In the thought process of the late eco-philosopher Sigmund Kvaloy [...]

Fellow outdoor educator Simon Beames recently told me that, when guiding in the Cairngorm Mountains, his students have fun saying, “I’m going over there for a Nan moment.” Obviously, this is an [...]

Here’s the story!  Back in 1995/96, an Independent Commission on Environmental Education was established to help us poor educators sift through the plethora of environmental education textbooks, [...]

I am a skier when on a glacier, first and foremost. In the mid-1980s, a twenty-plus day ski tour on Baffin Island’s Penny Ice Cap and its finger-like extensions taught me to love the clean, open [...]

EDITOR’S LOG Wild Pedagogies Discussed By Bob Henderson “If your words are dull, then your thoughts are dull.” Nils Faarlund “If some people don’t hate your work, you’re not doing it right.” Kate [...]

Wild Pedagogies: A Modest Research Inquiry    By Bob Henderson In advance of the Wild Pedagogies colloquium in Finse, Norway in August 2019, I set it upon myself to represent a practitioner voice [...]

Wild Pedagogies Playfully Conceptualized   Bob Henderson Recently while offering a Wild Pedagogies workshop, my co-presenter made an interesting slip-up in language. She had meant to say, [...]

A Case for School Canoe Trips: Rethinking Risk   Bob Henderson   In July 2017, Jeremiah Perry, age 15, died in Algonquin Park by drowning on a Toronto high school canoe trip. As best we [...]

WILD PEDAGOGIES STORIES Evaluation of Teaching: But What Kind?   By Bob Henderson        Early in my career as an outdoor educator at a Canadian university, I ran into a conflict with my [...]

Thoughts and admittedly a bit of a rant  on the Wilderness Superhero “Look-at-Me” Adventure Narrative Bob Henderson   I am a big fan of singer-songwriter Todd Snider’s opening to a song: [...]