Selected Publications

Books:

(2018) Schooling and Travelling Communities: Exploring the Spaces of Educational Exclusions, Palgrave https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-91364-3 

Book chapters:

Forthcoming (2025) Outdoor Learning: a transformative space for action. In Cudworth, E., & Higdon, R. (Eds.), Young People and Sustainable Futures, Routledge.


(2023) Education for Sustainability: connecting students to outdoor learning via forest school. In M. Pulsford, R. Morris, and R. Purves (eds), Understanding Education Studies: Critical Issues and New Directions (pp. 88-95). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296935 

 

Refereed journal articles:

(2023) Motivating the Learner: Developing Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness through Forest School Practice, (co-authored with Tymms, M). Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education.

DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42322-023-00146-0 


(2021) Forest School and the Pathways to Nature Connection: Developing a sense of place in the promotion of health, well-being and pro-environmental attitudes. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 24, 71-85 (co-authored with Lumber, R). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42322-021-00074-x 


(2020) Promoting an emotional connection to nature via Forest School: Disrupting the spaces of neo-liberal performativity. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (Special Issue) Towards a Critically Posthumanist Sociology. 41(3/4), 506-521. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-09-2019-0188 


(2015) Schooling, Space and Social Justice, Power and Education Journal. 7(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757743814567388 


Other publications:

(2021) Moving through the Woods: Developing Children’s Connection and Appreciation of Nature, ICA Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Leiden University, Netherlands https://www.itiwana.org/ica-1-2021-movement 

Blogs:

Morris, D., Cudworth, D., (2018) Anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate (a 6 Blog series). British Educational Research Association (BERA) [Online] https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog-series/from-zero-to-hero-anecdotal-tales-in-pursuit-of-the-elusive-doctorate 


Cudworth, D., (2021) Education for Sustainability: Connecting learners with nature. BERA [Online]  https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/education-for-sustainability-connecting-learners-with-nature  

Conference Papers:

Let’s go Outside: Disrupting the spaces of neo-liberal schooling, British Educational Research Association Annual conference (BERA) – Online, September 2021 


Let’s go Outside: Disrupting the spaces of neo-liberal schooling, British Education Studies Association Annual Conference (BESA) - Online, 24th June 2021


Wellbeing in the Woods: Forest School and the Pathways to Nature Connection, Biophilic Design of Schools for Children’s Health and Well-being, with Dr. Ryan Lumber, De Montfort University, 27th January 2021


Wellbeing in the woods: engaging self-determination theory with learning through Forest School, Online Education Research Webinar, with Dr. Mark Tymms, DeMontfort University, Leicester, November 18th 2020


Promoting a connection to nature and a sense of place through Forest School, Biophilic Design in Primary Schools: Impacts on Children’s Well-being, at DeMontfort University, Leicester, online symposium, September 25th 2020


Freedom in the Woods: Forest School and Critical Pedagogy at the IX International Conference on Critical Education (ICCE), Naples, Italy, July 3rd-6th 2019


Frightened of Freedom: Reinventing Radical Education in the UK through Forest School Education, at the Anarchist Studies Network (ASN) conference, Loughborough University, September 2018


Forest School and the Pathways to Nature Connection, with Dr. Ryan Lumber (DMU) at the 4th Nature Connections 2018 Conference at the University of Derby, June 2018


Schooling, Space and Equality at the British Educational Research Association annual conference (BERA) – Institute of Education, London, Sept 2014.


Schooling, Space and Social Justice at the Discourse, Power and Resistance (DPR) conference – Greenwich University, UK, April 2014