by: abz252 - 15-05-12 12:05
Hello everyone, I am a student starting my dissertation research on outdoor play, looking at the views of practitioners and children and how it impacts learning. DOes any body have any helpful ideas for questions or on how to gather the data ???
by: purepurple
questionnaires
interviews
observations of children
by: Charlotte Cooper
In your work mention forest schools and if possible try and spend time in a forest school. for a mini research project I had to do at college I looked at learning environments and found that the outdoor area is the best. I was told to look at forest schools and talk to different schools about what they thought.
Have two questionnaires. One for the children in simple language with tick boxes and bright colours and a more complex one with the correct terms for the adults. Depending upon the age of the children you could also ask the questions and ask them to put thier hands up.
If possible take photogrpahs of the settings without the children in them as evidence of the different outdoor play environments. It allows you then to have a visual to compare and contrast them.