Research

What the mountain teaches us

Studies carried out at Wild Mountains, or drawn directly from our programs, in education, ecology and the inner life of learning.

A living field site

Research at Wild Mountains

This page gathers research that has either been carried out at Wild Mountains or is directly related to our programs. We welcome new work on the mountain. Please get in touch if you would like to do research at our site.

The papers

Recent work

Environmental education

Education for Sustainability and Transformative Sustainability Learning

A synthesis of transformative and environmental pedagogies for lasting social change, exploring the gap between knowing and acting.

Elizabeth Nicholson

Citizen science

Glossy Black Survey

Each October we count the Glossy Black Cockatoo, a species listed as vulnerable in Queensland, as part of a statewide survey.

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Contemplative education

Learning Feelings

A phenomenological study of subjective contemplative experience, and what it means for learning through feeling.

Patricia Fay Morgan

Research with us

If you would like to carry out research at Wild Mountains, we would love to hear from you.

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