Young children’s education and care beyond the school walls

Through a diffractive engagement with narrative and visual data generated with 4-year-olds, this chapter examines the varied ways in which early years care and education emerged during a weekly day away from school that the children would come to call Adventure Group. While Adventure Group embodied unique elements of risk, freedom, participation, and movement, we contend that our encounters with spaces, places, humans, and non-humans emerged uniquely from intersecting enactments of “adventuring” and “being away” that were not accounted for in the dominant narratives around children’s outdoor or out-of-school experiences. A concluding argument is made for children’s rights to collective improvisation.