What is the impact of children’s access to nature from an educational and wellbeing perspective?
Background
Our goal is to create a world-class school system that ensures every child is taught a broad and ambitious knowledge-rich curriculum by highly skilled teachers, so they can achieve their potential. We need to continue to develop the evidence base around effective teaching practice and curriculum design, with teaching increasingly viewed as an applied science (akin to medicine) where evidence-based approaches are widely utilised, and skilled teachers draw upon expert support and professional communities. We also need to build our understanding of how best to replicate the success of high performing schools, and how school trusts can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their schools, including through management of the school estate. A key part of this is building evidence on the most successful school approaches to improving attendance.
Next steps
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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Exploring the role and potential of curriculum based environmental education for supporting the wellbeing of young people
Many students in the UK benefit from curriculum-based environmental education (EE) (A-level and GCSE biology and geography fieldwork) which is provided by organisations such as the Field Studies Council (FSC). However, t...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project explores the impact of curriculum-based environmental education on the wellbeing of young people, aligning with the question's focus on children's access to nature from an educational and wellbeing perspective.
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Nature Stages
'Engagement with the natural environment has wide ranging physical, emotional, social and cognitive benefits for all age groups' (The People and Nature Survey for England 2020). Children who spend time outdoors learn to...
Funded by: ISCF
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on creating an extended reality product to encourage children to connect with nature, highlighting the benefits of nature on children's physical, emotional, social, and cognitive well-being.
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Early Childhood Education Outdoor Nature-based Play and Learning (ECO Nature Play): intervention development
Transforming early childhood health and wellbeing is essential to the UK’s future prosperity (1). However, current indicators highlight the need for new interventions to support these ambitions. For example, 20% of young...
Funded by: MRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project proposes an innovative systems-based approach to promoting health and well-being in early years settings through nature-based interventions, addressing the impact on children's development and educators' well-being.