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| Learning though Landscapes is committed to research into the better use, design and management of school grounds. This commitment ensures that our policies, resources, publications and services are based on both current thinking and valuable, practical experience. |
If you know of research which should be included in this library, please email details to research@ltl.org.uk
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Childrens Environmental Learning
The Use, Design and Management of School Grounds
- Malone, Karen and Tranter, Paul (2003)
Children, Youth and Environments 13(2)
This article examines school grounds as sites for play and environmental learning. Based on a three-year project that involved 50 eight- to ten-year-old children at five Australian primary schools. Data collection includes behaviour mapping of children's play, interviews with children and teachers, and analysis of children's drawings of school grounds. The findings show large variations in types of play and environmental learning related to the physical qualities of the school grounds.
Weblink: http://colorado.edu/journals/cye
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Design for Learning
Values, Qualities and Processes of enriching School Landscapes
- Johnson, Julia M. - American Society of Landscape Architects (2000)
This paper presents learning values of school landscapes, as well as design qualities and processes that may enrich these landscapes for children and community.
Weblink: http://www.asla.org/latis1/LATIS-cover.htm
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Gaining Ground
The Power and Potential of School Ground Greening in the Toronto District School Board
- Janet Dyment, Ph.D. (2005)
Gaining Ground identifies compelling benefits of hands-on outdoor learning on student engagement, achievement, behaviour, health, safety and environmental awareness. It argues forcefully for greater institutional support of green school grounds at both the school board and provincial level.
Weblink: http://www.evergreen.ca/en/lg/lg-resources.html
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Growing Schools
The Innovation Fund projects (2003): an external evaluation
- Scott, W., Reid, A., Jones, N. (Council of Environmental Education and University of Bath - 2003)
This document reports on the evaluation of the Growing Schools Initiative’s Innovation Fund Projects (2002 – 2003). Six flagship Projects were supported through the Innovation Fund as part of the Department for Education and Skills’ (DfES) larger (and continuing) Growing Schools Initiative.
Weblink: http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/5655/030923%20GS%20IF%20Final%20Report.doc
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Learners and Learning in Environmental Education
A critical reveiw of the evidence
- Rickinson, Mark (2001)
This document reports on a review of recent empirical studies of learners and learning in primary or secondary school environmental education.
Environmental Education Research, 7, 3, pp 207-320
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Measuring Success
A Guide to Evaluating School Grounds Projects
- Learning through Landscapes, 2004
Evaluation is an essesntial part of any school grounds project. As well as helping you judge the effects of all your hard work, evaluation gives you the impetus to celebrate and publicise what you have achieved, and can strengthen your case for funding future projects.
Measuring Success is a useful resource for anyone involved in a school grounds development project. The pack includes an introduction to evaluation concepts; a range of activities to get children and adults fully involved in evaluation; questionnaires for staff and pupils; and feedback forms to share your findings with LTL.
All the activities included in the Measuring Success pack have been designed with pupil participation in mind, making the evaluation process both fun and educational.
With funding from the DfES Innovation Unit, the Measuring Success resource pack is now available to members for just £5 inc P&P and to non-members for only £9.95 until the end of December 2005.
To pick up your copy, download the order form by clicking on the link below or call 01962 845811.
Limited availability.
Weblink: http://www.ltl.org.uk/uploaded_documents/MS%20order_form2.pdf
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Schoolyard Learning
The impact of School Grounds
- Education Development Center, Inc and the Boston Schoolyard Funders Collaborative (2000)
This paper from the Boston Schoolyard Funders Collaborative and Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) looks at what has been learned to date from efforts to make school grounds an integral part of the classroom experience, and makes recommendations to further strengthen the linkages between school grounds, learning, and child development.
Weblink: http://www.edc.org/GLG/schoolyard.pdf
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Special Places; Special People
The hidden curriculum of the schoolgrounds
- Titman, Wendy (1994)
The result of two years of collaboration between WWF and Learning through Landscapes into the formative experiences of the school playground.
(Currently out of print)
Weblink: http://www.wwf.org.uk
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Teachers perceptions of the value and impact of Learnscapes
Implications
- Skamp, K. and Bergmann, I. (2001)
A primary and a secondary school, involved in the development of Learnscapes for several years, were selected to determine how teachers and students perceive the value and impact of Learnscapes, and particularly how they are related to the learning outcomes in the formal school curriculum.
Weblink: http://www.mesa.edu.au/aaee_conf/list_title.htm
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