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Early in my teaching career I had one of those life-shaping experiences of which one is forever revisiting when questions of professional identity and one’s “place” of practice are raised. The [...]

I think it was a student who had the idea. I can’t remember how it happened. The idea was to acknowlege the “radical” (if thats the right word in our Outdoor Education class. It [...]

It was the last day of a four day University canoe trip in classic “blue lake and rocky shore” terrain. My bow paddler was completing his first canoe trip. We had a few lakes and [...]

In a wild pedagogy frame of mind, one learns from students. Student encounters can be gold and those ones that grace those first years of teaching can last a lifetime. In my case, I can now look [...]

Early in my career as an Outdoor Educator at a Canadian University, I ran into a conflict of teaching philosophy and practice that taught me an important lesson. I believe it is a lesson that [...]

I’d known of the “idea” of Irish Monks living/settling in caves in Iceland in the early 800AD era (predating the norse settlement period by about 70 years) for many years. It [...]

“Sometimes it seems my students have been either bored or frustrated by being given yet another course outline at the start of the term.” By fourth year, the undergraduate students I teach are [...]

Wild pedagogy is an idea: We can do education better. Education can be more place-responsive, in local or remote “wild” places. We need to recover wildness in our lives. Wild in a place denotes a [...]