The Ocean, Blue Spaces and Outdoor Learning

Across formal and nonformal learning contexts, this book examines how experiences of the ocean and 'blue spaces' help us to understand ourselves, others and our place within the natural environment, and the place of the ocean in our socio-cultural and political life.

Mike Brown is Associate Professor of Outdoor Learning at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. His research and teaching interests have been in the area of learning in outdoor contexts with a particular focus on the marine environment. He has co-edited Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea (with Barbara Humberstone) and Living with the Sea: Knowledge, Awareness and Action (with Kimberley Peters). He has several commercial maritime qualifications and is an active sailor and kayaker. He serves on the board of several charitable trusts that provide outdoor experiences to young New Zealanders.

Part I: Blue Space: Connections, Community, and Well-being, 1. Surfing, Ocean Identities, and Well-being in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2. Learning to Surf: Women Migrants' Stories of Engaging with the Ocean, 3. Recounting Encounter: Ocean Swimming, Multispecies Ecologies, and More-than-ocean-literacies, 4. Drawn Together by the Sea: Swimming, Waves and Well-being, 5. The Deep Blue: Learning from Wilderness Experiences in Ocean Sailing, 6. Water Symphonies: Teaching Silent Soundscapes and Tranquillity, 7. A Polluted Leisure Pedagogy in Seascape Wastelands, 8. Children's Active Living by the Sea: New Coastal Environments in Denmark, 9. Cultures of Managing Hazard and Play: Guarding Life in the Littoral Zone, Part II: Experiencing Blue Spaces in Educational Settings, 10. Sail Training: Perspectives of Sea Going Staff, 11. Setting Sail to Response-ability: Sail Training through and for the Sea, 12. We Sail for Stories: Fifty Years of the Blue Humanities at Sea Education Association (SEA), 13. All at Sea: Living the Tension of Mobility and Place, 14. Visualising Seascapes: Encounters in Higher Education, 15. Students of the Sea: Tauira O Te Moana, 16. T-n- koe (that is you): Meeting the Ocean Dwelling Other