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Outdoor day-care centres – a culturalization of nature: how do children relate to nature as educational practice?
2012
This article will discuss how children and adults experience a certain outdoor environment as part of an educational practice, through the activities the adults and children have. It will further discuss how these activities realize cultural values through the educators' and children's activities. In Norway the use of outdoor environments has become increasingly central as part of the pedagogical/educational practice (in both schools and kindergartens). The outdoor kindergartens in Norway are organized in different ways, the common feature being that the educationist and the children are outdoors the most of the day, every day, in all sorts of weather. The outdoor kindergartens leave traces…
PROMOTING INCLUSION BY BRINGING EDUCATION OUT-DOORS: OUTCOMES OF EXPLORATORY RESEARCH WITH TEACHERS
2023
Signing the Agenda 2030 in 2015, 193 Member Countries of the United Nation unequivocally declared the intention to pursue their efforts to actively restructure a sustainable world. Inter alia, through Goal 4, the Agenda links the achievement of sustainable and democratic development to the theme of inclusion, which has been animating both the pedagogical and political international debate for more than two decades. What stands out is the need to address the education to all, no one excluded, in order to foster the human empowerment at a personal, community and social level. That indistinguishably means to give all students a fair opportunity to flourish and fully realize their potential, in…
Outdoor Education come vettore di inclusione. Un’indagine esplorativa
2022
Le tematiche dell’inclusione e dello sviluppo sostenibile rappresentano oggi, senza dubbio, uno dei terreni di dibattito fondamentali per una riflessione pedagogica, intrinsecamente connessa con la prassi in un circolare sapere-agire trasformativo, mossa verso la promozione di forme autentiche di convivenza democratica e di cittadinanza globale nell’ottica della costruzione di un’identità plurale e di un armonioso sviluppo umano. L’educazione inclusiva assume allora i connotati di un’educazione democratica i cui valori fondamentali dell’ambiente e dei contesti, della comunità e della partecipazione sono rivolti a tutti. Nel contesto italiano, il documento di lavoro L’autonomia scolastica pe…
Scuola inclusiva e Outdoor Education. Un’indagine esplorativa nel primo ciclo di istruzione
2022
Le tematiche dell’inclusione e dello sviluppo sostenibile rappresentano oggi, senza dubbio, uno dei terreni di dibattito fondamentali per una riflessione pedagogica, mossa verso la promozione di forme autentiche di convivenza democratica e di cittadinanza globale nell’ottica della costruzione di un’identità plurale e di un armonioso sviluppo umano. L’educazione inclusiva assume allora i connotati di un’educazione democratica i cui valori fondamentali dell’ambiente e dei contesti, della comunità e della partecipazione sono rivolti a tutti. Ma, se da un lato la letteratura nazionale ed internazionale ha fornito cospicue evidenze scientifiche a sostegno di come la relazione diretta con la natu…
Learning opportunities in the outdoor school–empirical findings on outdoor school in Germany from the children’s perspective
2017
This article examines learning processes and learning opportunities in the outdoor school based on 13 focus-group interviews with children (ages 8–9) at three German elementary schools. For 1 year,...
Travelling with Darwin and Humboldt. A Transdisciplinary Educational Experience
2019
Aim. This research aims to confirm that transdisciplinary projects can be very adequate to develop content and competencies traditionally assigned to Sciences and Arts in higher education, exploring the possibilities of outdoor education.
 Methods. The subjects of the study were one hundred alumni of two different courses “Natural Sciences for Teachers” and “Literary Training for Teachers” at a Spanish university. An educational experience around the phenomenon of scientific travelers was developed, focusing on Charles Darwin and Alexander von Humboldt and the literary genres of travel journals and letters. The main activity contained three phases, including indoor and outdoor educatio…
School Teaching in Germany Between Tradition and Innovation: The Concept of the Outdoor School
2019
It is a well known fact that school is seen as having a spatial characteristic, being associated to indoor learning. The aim of this chapter is to underlined the idea that learning and educational processes can take place in different settings, and to offer other experiences that the traditional classroom with its specific conditions largely neglected. The dimensions of space, time, and body are re-evaluated from the perspective of outdoor education which faces children (and teachers) with new, sometimes challenging, and adventurous experiences that contrast with an everyday routine of school instruction.
The ‘outdoor school’ as a school improvement process: empirical results from the perspective of teachers in Germany
2017
ABSTRACTThis paper focuses on school improvement processes in the context of weekly curricular-based teaching and learning activities outside the classroom – known as Drausenschule or ‘outdoor school’ – in three German primary schools. Qualitative interviews were conducted with three teachers two years after implementing the ‘outdoor school’. The teachers’ experiences show that the implementation and (ongoing) development of an outdoor school affects (1) teaching as such; (2) the school staff, and (3) the entire school as an organisation. The three areas are interlinked in different ways and the school improvement process cannot be approached from the perspective of any one area alone.
Det er tungt å bære sekken, men det er tyngre å bære på unyttige tanker : En kvalitativ studie om på hvilken måte friluftsliv og opphold i naturen ka…
2017
Masteroppgave folkehelsevitenskap ME516 - Universitetet i Agder 2017 Introduction: As a result of the growth in mental illnesses and the industrial society, there is an increased need for a place where humans can reconnect and find peace. Science shows that almost one out of four grown up Norwegians has a mental disorder, and that physical activity, especially by spending time in nature, can contribute to the recovery. To accommodate these challenges, I believe that science can offer a better understanding on how we can facilitate for health promotion accompanied with nature. Objective and key question: The purpose of this study is to get a better and holistic understanding on how the natur…
Ārtelpas video aktivitātes kā iekļaujošs mācību līdzeklis svešvalodu apguvē pusaudžiem
2015
Maģistra darbā “Ārtelpas video aktivitātes kā iekļaujošs mācību līdzeklis svešvalodu apguvē pusaudžiem” tiek pētīta svešvalodas apguves vēsture un patreizējās tendences, kā arī ārtelpas aktivitātes kā svešvalodas apguvi veicinošs mācību līdzeklis nodarbībās pusaudžiem. Datu ieguvei par ārtelpas aktivitāšu laikā iegūtajiem rezultātiem pētījumā tiek izmantots formatīvais skolotāja vērtējums un skolēna pašvērtējums. Pētījuma mērķis ir atklāt saistības starp ārtelpas video aktivitāšu sniegtajiem svešvalodas apguves rezultātiem un skolēnu pašvērtējumu un skolotāja vērtējumu. Datu analīze parāda, ka skolēnu un skolotāju vērtējumos pastāv konsekvence. Tiek pierādīts, ka ārtelpas video aktivitātes …