Wild Pedagogy

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, [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]