Three ways to navigate this site

The Forest of Brocéliande provides THREE simple ways to explore the complexity of environmental issues. They can operate as stand-alone methods to explore the material on this site but they complement each other and provide an opportunity for visitors to chose how they want to study the material at any given time on any given day. The visitor is empowered and can take responsibility for their own learning. They can even change their mind about which means of navigation they prefer while inside the forest.

Table of Contents

An analogy for this would be to consider a book. It has chapters and within those there are pages. It’s organised hierarchically, of course. The Table of Contents is always visible on the left-hand side of the screen, even if you choose another method to navigate the forest.

When you click on an area, it will expand to show you all its contents; its grains.It operates as a list so that you can see what information is contained within the entire module.

You will see that there are hyperlinks and these will take you straight to the Areas and the individual grains.

 Pathways

These always appear underneath the Table of Contents. They are an excellent means of navigation through the forest. These pathways are recommended by our teachers as the most effective way to study the material on any given topic.

The material has been organised in such a manner as to build on learnings as you go, to deepen your understanding and facilitate thought. It also takes advantage of any knowledge prerequisites and extension study available on the site via grain relationships. We recommend you use these pathways to acquire the knowledge in the best pedagogical manner.

As you can see at left, clicking on a Pathwaythen offers up a menu of Areasand their Grainsfor you to explore in a recommended order.

Grain-jumping

The third way to navigate around the forest is to jump from grain to grain. Visitors can do this by simply clicking on the hyperlinked grains within Areas and they can do this by jumping around the grain relationships within a grain or area. They can also jump from grain to grain by using the grain hyperlinks in the Table of Contents.

This method may be useful if they have quite specific material they wish to access. It is less useful for a comprehensive understanding of what might be involved in issues within entire Areas or Modules as it is not structured in a pedagogic manner.

More information on navigation is included throughout this manual.