Author(s): Pip Lynch

NZ Outdoors

This history of outdoor education provides a fascinating study of how educational ideas and economic and social changes combined to produce a curriculum innovation that took school children outdoors. Once established, the challenge to retain outdoor education in school programmes proved no less daunting than the abseiling, kayaking or teamwork challenges set for pupils throughout the country. Extensively illustrated and integrating policy development with details of individual school outdoor programmes, it makes an important contribution to the history of New Zealand education. "Camping in the Curriculum" will appeal to all with an interest in education, outdoor education, education outside the classroom or environmental education, as well as those interested in general New Zealand history. Pip Lynch is a senior lecturer in outdoor and environmental education at Lincoln University.