Thomas Aneurin Smith, "Unfamiliar Landscapes: Young People and Diverse Outdoor Experiences"
English | ISBN: 303094459X | 2022 | 598 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
English | ISBN: 303094459X | 2022 | 598 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
This book critically interrogates how young people are introduced to landscapes through environmental education, outdoor recreation, and youth-led learning, drawing on diverse examples of green, blue, outdoor, or natural landscapes. Understanding the relationships between young people and unfamiliar landscapes is vital for young people’s current and future education and wellbeing, but how landscapes and young people are socially constructed as unfamiliar is controversial and contested. Young people are constructed as unfamiliar within certain landscapes along lines of race, gender or class: this book examines the cultures of outdoor learning that perpetuate exclusions and inclusions, and how unfamiliarity is encountered, experienced, constructed, and reproduced.
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