The Role of External Organizations in Providing Teacher Support for Fieldwork in the Local Environment

• Autores: Monica Hale
• Localización: Innovations in education and teaching international, ISSN 1470-3297, Vol. 24, Nº 1, 1987, págs. 32-36
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article assesses the importance of, and the difficulties arising from, the incorporation of environmental education into the curriculum. The Department of Education and Science (DES) has reported that pupils are provided with inadequate opportunities to experience practical work in out‐of‐classroom situations. To encourage greater educational use of the local environment it is necessary to train teachers in field techniques and the appropriate investigative methodology. The work of an external teacher support unit, the Urban Spaces Scheme, is described, and an evaluation made of how this type of assistance could be used to further in‐service training and support Local Education Authority (LEA) policy and education initiatives. The requirement for external teacher support to encourage investigative fieldwork is reviewed on the basis of work being carried out in a number of north London schools.