Fieldwork

Outdoor fieldwork has been a long-standing pedagogy within the Life Sciences (such as Shulman, L. S. (2005). Signature Pedagogies in the Professions. Daedalus, 134(3), 52–59), Geography and other disciplines.

Benefits of Fieldwork

Fieldwork has a range of benefits for students, such as promoting employability in the professional field, fostering transferable skills through peer collaboration, and connecting concepts learnt in a classroom to a real-life context (13).