A Potential Value of Familiarity and Experience: Can Informal Fieldwork Have a Lasting Impact upon Literacy?

Autor/inn/en	Scott, Graham W.; Boyd, Margaret
Titel	A Potential Value of Familiarity and Experience: Can Informal Fieldwork Have a Lasting Impact upon Literacy?
Quelle	In: Education 3-13, 42 (2014) 5, S.517-527 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4279
DOI	10.1080/03004279.2012.731418
Schlagwörter	Elementary School Students; Field Trips; Familiarity; Student Experience; Literacy; Outdoor Education; Ecology; Biology; Animals; Vocabulary; Descriptive Writing; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Exkursion; Studienerfahrung; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Freiluftunterricht; Ökologie; Biologie; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Wortschatz; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper demonstrates that an informal field trip can have a lasting impact upon aspects of learning in a primary school context. Specifically, we consider the longer term impact of an informal trip to a rocky shore upon scores achieved in literacy assessments taking place five months after a relevant five months after a fieldwork. Pupils provided with an opportunity to write about organisms that they had encountered during the field trip and with which they were therefore familiar achieved higher literacy levels than those children writing about less familiar animals that had not been encountered during fieldwork. Specific improvement in the ability of the children to use specialised vocabulary and elaborated descriptive were recorded. Our work adds to the growing body of research evidence that demonstrates the benefits of outdoor learning experiences focused upon ecology/biology across the wider curriculum. (As Provided).
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