Child, place, and others: interactions that support outdoor learning

The field of outdoor learning is complex and diverse, with many forms residing under this broad umbrella. This special issue seeks to drill down to the nature of interactions between children and their social and physical environment, encouraging greater detail of features and facilitation by others. Deliberately choosing the term ‘others’ to signal our interest in relationships with the non-human world as well as people, articles in the special issue will consider the material and cultural spaces in which activities take place and how they impact on particular outcomes.