{"product_id":"the-story-of-white-hall-pete-mcdonald-9780473425272","title":"The Story of White Hall Centre: Outdoor Education across the Decades","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Story of White Hall Centre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhite Hall Centre for Open Country Pursuits, near Buxton in Derbyshire, was set up in 1950 by Jack Longland, Derbyshire's director of education. \u003cem\u003eThe Story of White Hall Centre\u003c\/em\u003e describes White Hall's origins and its sixty-seven years in existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten references to the setting-up of White Hall show that one of the main purposes of the centre, at a local level, was straightforward and was openly and repeatedly stated: to introduce young people of Derbyshire to what Peter Mosedale, the centre's first warden, called the 'hill and water sports'. The written sources also reveal a more ambitious intention, in the mind of Jack Longland, which was to demonstrate and promote a widening of physical education nationally. They show that he frequently spoke of the need to extend physical education beyond the playing fields and that he set out deliberately to do exactly that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLongland pursued his vision boldly in the face of local and national criticism. Taking school pupils on adventurous outdoor pursuits was not a new idea, but the scale of the Derbyshire development - a residential centre running all year round and open to young people from across the county - was unprecedented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1970, Longland had observed 'an astonishing drift of the whole range of subjects which we call physical education towards outdoor pursuits, towards mountains and moors and rivers, lakes and the sea'. In successfully achieving Longland's local aims and in significantly influencing national developments, White Hall Centre helped to widen the meaning of education, and particularly of physical education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pete McDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0473425270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780473425272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bookpoint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 2.25d","brand":"Pete McDonald","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453313757439,"sku":"9780473425272","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01fe14fb-52d8-4838-a0c1-245e160af543.jpg?v=1777299530","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-story-of-white-hall-pete-mcdonald-9780473425272","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}