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0845 196 3566
sara.knight@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• Cert. Ed
• BA Hons
• MA (Distinction)
• Certificate in Adult Dyslexia
• Playwork Trainer
• Forest School practitioner

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the Institute of Outdoor learning - Forest School Special Interest Group (IOL FSSIG)

Courses

• Course Group Leader for Work centred Learning (which includes the 2 courses below)
• Foundation Degree Early Years, Playwork and Education
• BA Hons Early Years Professional Practice

General Experience

After a variety of experiences as a teacher including a year in Norway, running a 52-place nursery class and working in the nursery assessment unit of a large special school, Sara moved into teacher and training others.

Initially this was principally in the Further Education sector, but always included Higher Education modules, and in time Sara moved to entirely Higher Education work. She has been at Anglia Ruskin University since 2007, latterly in the role described above.

Research Interests

The development of Forest School in the UK has given Sara the opportunity to pull together her interest in the environment with her interest in early years education and the development of communication, as can be seen from her list of publications below.

Selected Publications

Knight. S, Chapter: What is Forest School? A discussion of the development of Forest School in the UK, in Prof. em. Peter Becker, Jochem Schirp, and Martin Vollmar, 2013, Abenteuer, Natur und Frühe Bildung, Germany: Barbara-Budrich-Verlag

Knight. S, Chapter: Valuing Outdoor Spaces; different models of outdoor learning in the early years, in Papatheodourou, T & Moyles, J., Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Early Childhood, Sage, 2012

Knight. S, Forest School for All, (editor), Sage, May 2011

Knight. S, The Pedagogy of Forest School in the UK, The International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education, Vol 2, Issue 4

Knight. S, Why Adventure and Risk in the Early Years, Child Links, The Journal of Barnardos' Training and Resource Service, Issue 3 2011, Dublin: Barnardos' Training and Resource Service

Knight. S, Adventure, Woods and Early Education, Into the woods: About the significance of woods and wilderness for Youth work in Europe, proceedings of European Institute of Outdoor Education Conference 2011, Finland

Knight. S, In Praise of Wild Berries, Teach Nursery Magazine, November 2011

Knight. S, Risk and Adventure in Early Years Outdoor Play: lessons from Forest School, Sage, March 2011 (Highly Commended at Nursery World Awards 2011)

Knight. S, Chapter 12: Forest School: Playing on the wild side, in Moyles, J., The Excellence of Play, OU Press, August 2010