A Pedagogy of Place: Outdoor Education for a Changing World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780980651249)

Mike Brown is a Senior Lecturer in the Sport and Leisure Studies Department, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato. He has worked in the outdoors in the UK, Australia and New Zealand over a twenty year period. During this time he has combined field positions with tertiary appointments which have proven to be useful opportunities for seeing outdoor education practice and theory from a variety of contexts. His research has appeared in a number of outdoor education peer reviewed and professional journals as well as in a number of edited books. He has examined some of the fundamental assumptions on which much outdoor education practice is based with a view to strengthening outdoor educators' understanding of the teaching and learning process. He serves on the board of several outdoor education trusts and is the editor of the New Zealand Journal of Outdoor Education. Outside of work Mike keeps active by competing in triathlons, undertaking the occasional sea kayaking trip and more recently 'family camping' - oh the joys of a thick airbed and a trailer to carry stuff, as compared to a thin foam mattress and a backpack! Brian Wattchow is a Senior Lecturer and Course Director of Sport and Outdoor Recreation (SOR) in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. He is a foundation member of the Movement, Environment and Community (MEC) research group at Monash. Brian has over 30 publications in academic journals, scholarly book chapters and in the public domain, most often centring on his interests in outdoor pedagogy, sense of place and land identity. He coauthored Group Management in the Wilderness (University of Calgary, 1989) with Bill March and has recently published his first collection of poetry titled The Song of the Wounded River (Ginninderra Press, 2010). Away from work Brian is an avid golfer and reader, and enjoys camping, travelling and 'toiling' under the hot Australian sun on the small Gippsland farmlet where he lives with his family.