| Summary: | When education resumes after the COVID-19 emergency, what will schools look like? This paper discusses possibilities in two areas that can help us reimagine what learning might look like in the post-pandemic world: outdoor education and constructionist/maker education. These two areas of educational research have been widely studied and now could become important components of the reimagining of our educational systems.
There is a great deal of scientific literature on outdoor education demonstrating its effectiveness, even in pre-pandemic conditions. Now, outdoor education becomes even more important, given the need to provide students with social distancing, and a learning environment with minimized risk of contagion. Now, as indoor makerspaces and other spaces for invention might not be able to accommodate students due to health concerns, we might consider implementing maker education in contexts outside of the school. This paper lays the foundations for future designs of educational units that combine the principles of outdoor education and Constructionist/maker pedagogy.
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