This lecture cites the need for teachers to use all the learning environments available to them, especially the outdoors. Outdoor education can make the educational process full of wonder and excitement; it can also develop humanistic characteristics that permit children to become worthwhile citizens in society. (DS)

An eclectic, ethnographic methodology is presented for studying the content and acquisition of children's environmental learning, knowledge, and interaction in a transitional economy in rural Sudan. Drawing on methods of geography, linguistics, and anthropology, the paper attempts to provide a valid alternative to most of the methods used in…