Outdoor Education, School of Education

A: St Leonard’s Land, Moray House School of Education, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ

T:   0131 651 6520

W: http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/outdoored/

The mission of the University of Edinburgh is the creation, dissemination and curation of knowledge. As a world-leading centre of academic excellence it aims to:

• enhance our position as one of the world’s leading research and teaching universities and to measure our performance against the highest international standards
• provide the highest quality learning and teaching environment for the greater wellbeing of our students and deliver an outstanding educational portfolio
• produce graduates fully equipped to achieve the highest personal and professional standards
• make a significant, sustainable and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK and the world, promoting health and economic and cultural wellbeing.

Outdoor Education Section
For over 35 years the section has had an international reputation as one of the leading providers of outdoor and environmental education in the world, offering a range of taught postgraduate programmes as well as opportunities for doctoral research and beyond. The central focus of the section’s work is to encourage positive relationships between individuals and the environment through learning outdoors, balanced with the critical thinking skills fundamental to both academic study and professional practice. Staff are committed to a broad vision of interdisciplinary learning outdoors as the corollary to learning indoors.