Dr. Kim Polistina has 25 years experience working on education and training in the implementation of sustainability and global citizenship primarily through the medium of outdoor learning. She has experience in education, consultancy and research at all levels of society, in particular higher education, community-based learning and adult education.

 

She has published several academic papers (listed below) in the area and managed and contributed to the development of the outdoor learning, sustainability and global citizenship in her institutional roles as award leader and senior lecturer in universities in the United Kingdom and Australia. Over the past 25 years her work has spanned many social sectors including cultural awareness, health and well-being, business and enterprise, sustainable living practices and environmental and outdoor learning and education.

 

Polistina, K. (2009). Cultural Literacy: Understanding and respect for the cultural aspects of sustainability. In A. Stibbs (Ed.), The Handbook for Sustainability, Oxford: Green Books

Polistina, K. (2007). Changing spaces, sustaining community spirit, pride and value: Outdoor leisure's role in holistic sustainable regeneration in South Wales, in M. Casado-Diaz, S. Everett & J. Wilson, Social and Cultural Change: Making Space(s) for Leisure and Tourism, Eastbourne: LSA Publication No. 82.

Polistina, K., & Lee, C. (2006). The role of lifelong learning in outdoor learning degrees at the University of Glamorgan, South Wales. In B. Humberstone & H. Brown (Eds.), Shaping the Outdoor Profession through Higher Education: Creative Diversity in Outdoor Studies Courses in Higher Education in the UK (pp. 115-124). Cumbria: Institute for Outdoor Learning

Polistina, K. (2005), Researching Different Cultural Groups: Some ethical and methodological reflections, in S. Fleming and F. Jordan, Ethical Issues in Leisure Research,  Eastbourne: LSA Publications No. 90

Polistina, K. (2004). Visualising the environment: Diverse ways of ‘seeing’ and knowing in the outdoors in C. Aitchison and H. Pussard, Leisure, Space and Visual Culture: Practices and Meanings, Eastbourne: LSA Publication No. 84

Polistina, K.J. (2003). A move towards environmentally sustainable lifestyles through outdoor leisure? in A. Ibbetson, B. Watson and M. Ferguson, Access and Inclusion in Leisure and Tourism, Eastbourne: LSA Publication No. 82.

Polistina, K. (2003). “Lifelong journeys in the outdoors and environment”, in B. Humberstone, H. Brown & K. Richards (2002), Whose Journeys? The Outdoors and Adventure as Social and Cultural Phenomena: Critical explorations of relations between individuals, ‘others’ and the environment, Cumbria, UK: The Institute of Outdoor Learning, p. 378-382

Polistina, K. (2001). “The validation of alternative discourses in the lifelong learning systems of Australian appreciative outdoor recreationalists and Indigenous peoples” in G. McPherson and G. Reid, Leisure and Social Inclusion: New Challenges for Policy and Provision, Eastbourne: LSA Publication No. 73.

Polistina, K. (1999).  The issues and benefits of cultural and environmental education by and for, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) communities through the medium of outdoor recreation and education - ANNALS of Leisure Research, Vol 2, p. 100-19.