This is a high-octane course focused on experiential and context-based learning approaches that bring learning to life through local culture, heritage, people, and landscape as the foundation for holistic teaching and learning. You will discover how learning beyond classroom walls enhances both academic achievement and students’ physical and emotional wellbeing.

Whether you are looking to deepen your teaching repertoire, or exploring these approaches for the first time, this course will provide you with practical strategies to confidently extend your students’ competences through local contexts, heritage, people, natural environments, and cultural landscapes.

Taking Dublin and Ireland as a rich cultural, historical, natural, and social backdrop of the course, you will engage in hands-on field experiences, learning effective approaches for curriculum integration, social and emotional learning, and multi-sensory teaching strategies that make outdoor and context-based learning achievable and meaningful in diverse educational contexts.

Our course is for educators from all subjects and educational levels who are seeking effective and engaging ways to enrich their professional practice by connecting diverse curricular areas with real-world contexts, and would like to explore how outdoor and context-based learning cultivates curiosity, meaningful engagement, and learning by doing.

This course is part of the Irish American Educator Initiative, which connects educators across the United States with Ireland’s rich culture, heritage, literature, and arts.

For further information, please consult the Programme of this course.