Te Whakatika is Aotearoa New Zealand’s professional practice journal for outdoor and environmental learning, published by Education Outdoors New Zealand (EONZ) in partnership with the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education (NZAEE). 

The journal provides a platform for educators, researchers, and practitioners to share insights, research, and innovative practices in outdoor and environmental education.

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As an additional benefit of EONZ membership, the Australian Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education (JOEE) is freely available to EONZ members. 

Benefits:

• Three new digital JOEE issues published each year
• Advanced online publication of articles
• A growing catalogue of short video abstracts with authors discussing their articles.
• Over 100 articles from JOEE and AJOE back issues 
• Outdoor and Environmental Education Curriculum Resources from around Australia and the world. 

This free subscription has been made possible through EONZ's partnership with Outdoor Education Australia (OEA).

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Please see your EONZ membership joining email for the password or email admin@eonz.org.nz.

Researched and written by Associate Professor Mike Boyes the Annotated Chronological History of Education Outdoors New Zealand (EONZ) covers the years before EONZ came into being in 1992 through to 2021. It is an amazing record of both EONZ's development and also that of the wider outdoor sector.

Simon Beams and Mike Brown

Adventurous Learning interrogates the word ‘adventure’ and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty, and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. Read more...
Copies can be ordered through Routledge with an eBook order option.

Brian Wattchow and Mike Brown

This book offers an alternative vision for outdoor education practice, with emphasis on responding to, and empathising with, the outdoors as particular places, rich in local meaning and
significance.
Available in print and online at Fish Pond, Amazon or https://publishing.monash.edu/product/a-pedagogy-of-place/

Simon Beams, Peter Higgins, and Robbie Nicol

Available in hard and electronic copies through Routledge.
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Editors: Dave Irwin, Jo Straker, Allen Hill

Essential reading for outdoor educators, teachers, guides, and students who want to expand the possibilities and practices of education. FREE electronic copy.