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Professor Duncan Reavey

Professor of Environmental Education, National Teaching Fellow

About

Duncan is Principal Lecturer Learning and Teaching, working in both Adventure Education and the Institute of Education and promoting best practice in learning and teaching across the whole university.

Experience

Duncan is an ecologist and received the Thomas Henry Huxley Medal for his research in ecology. He leads in environment, environmental education and wilderness on the Outdoor and Adventure Education degree. Duncan established University of Chichester’s Forest School which delivers engaging outdoor learning to university students from a range of departments and CPD for schools, and leads a range of Chichester courses in Lanzarote.

He has published widely on ecology, ecological education and innovations in university teaching, and co-authored the textbook Global Environmental Change: Plants, Animals and Communities.

Duncan was awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship in recognition of excellence in innovative university teaching. In 2016 he was the university’s Lecturer of the Year at the student-led SU Teaching Awards, and in 2017 won the national TEAN Commendation for Innovative Practice in Teacher Education. He was shortlisted as Most Innovative University Teacher of the Year at the national Times Higher Education Awards 2017.

Interests

His academic interests and teaching approaches have been shaped by diverse times as a student in Oxford, Khartoum, York and Harvard, and as a lecturer in York, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Chichester. Why learn just the theory when so much more can come from living the experience? Duncan puts this into practice in courses which are hands-on and minds-on immersion, with students often challenged to deliver end products they think are impossible, but at the same time being given the time and space to learn in ways that suit them best.

More than ever, his classes bring to life the principle that hearts-on engagement really matters if students are to choose to make good use of their learning. Sunset campfires on a Lanzarote beach and planting trees on bleak winter days really do matter.

Research Output

Articles

Ruiz-Gallardo, J.-R. and Reavey, D. (2018) Learning Science Concepts by Teaching Peers in a Cooperative Environment: A Longitudinal Study of Preservice Teachers. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 28 (1). pp. 73-107. ISSN 1050-8406 10.1080/10508406.2018.1506988

Book Sections

Young, M. and Reavey, D. (2017) Embedding Global Citizenship in Initial Teacher Education. In: International trends in preparation of early childhood teachers in a changing world. Wydawnictwo Akademii Pedagogiki Specjalnej, Warszawa, Poland, pp. 162-183. ISBN 9788364953842

Reavey, D. (2016) Wanted! Outstanding teachers of science! Ten golden rules for teacher educators. In: Mejores docentes, mejores educadores [Better Teachers, Better Educators]. Ajibe Ediciones, Malaga, Spain. ISBN 978-84-9700-817-4

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