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Project PartnersCVU Midt-Vest, DKLinkjøbing University, SEHedmark University, NOTallin University, EECharles University, CZRiga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy, LVEstonia School Forests, EE
AIMS of Foundation Course
The Foundation Course should give the students experience with, knowledge about and insight in using the landscape as a learning ressource in the educational process
Contents
What is Outdoor Learning
Getting to a definition of Outdoor Learning
Why Outdoor Learning ?Health perspective
Learning perspective
Cultural perspective
How is Outdoor Learning ?
What is Outdoor Learning ?Society phenomenon and study – object (neutral)Discussion field and debate of ideas (ideological)Personal and pedagogical understanding (value-laden)
inspired from Klas Sandell
What is Outdoor Learning ?
Sports and Adventure ?Nature and Science ?Subjects in another context ?The room as a learning place ?Regular activities outside ?A subject and a pedagogical method ?
Outdoor learning is a form:Regular learning activities outside the classroomOften 1 day a week, all year All, or most, subjectsWorking with the same subjects inside – outside - inside
Outdoor learning is a way of understanding learningLearning through movements and sensesListening to the tales of the landscapeCrosses subjectsSolving problems, groupworkLearning through experience, activities and reflection
HistoryAuthentic learning
J.A. Comenius (1592-1670)
J.J. Rousseau (1712-1784)
J.H. Pestalozzi (1782-1827)
F. Fröbel (1782-1852)
E. Key (1849-1926)
J. Dewey (1859-1952)
And many others
Outdoor Education is a way of working, where you move parts of the everyday school out in the close environment. Outdoor education involve regular activity outside the classroom.
Arne Nikolajsen Jordet
Why Outdoor Learning now ?Everyday life for the childrenare
Heavily Screen dominatedLess physically activeBased on symbols instead
of reality
Contents
What is Outdoor Learning ?
Getting to a definition of Outdoor Learning
Why Outdoor Learning ?Health perspective
Learning perspective
Cultural perspective
How is Outdoor Learning ?
Results of the health perspective…Less stress (A Szczespanski)More physically active (Mygind)Better social relations (Christian Jacobsen - Mygind)Better motor coordination (Udeliv,Fjørtoft ?))Less sickness (Grahn, udeliv)More playmates (Mygind)
Learning perspective
Learning is an active process (Kolb, Dewey)Learning can go by different tracks (Grundtvig, Gardner)Deeper rooted learning (Fredens 2006, Schillab 2006)Better concentration (Grahn,1995, Vigsøe 2006)
Happier children (Mygind)
Learning is an active processExperiencing something
Applying the Interpreting experience the experience
Generalizing theexperience
Kolbs cycle of experiental learning
Cultural perspective
Forms of knowledge is a cultural phenomenon
Sagatelling
Handcraft
Agriculture
Academic
ValuesLearning through Heart
Respect for the environment
Better understanding of nature
Aesthetically founded experience and learning
Example of an Outdoor dayGathering indoorsTransport to the Outdoor classroomGathering around the bonfire, instructionsSubject workPause – lunch packetBreakSubject workGathering – evaluationTransport back to schoolWorking with subjects, inside, next days
Learning the subjects of Life
Learning the subjects of School
Learning in many ways
Learning through experience, action and understanding
This way of working gives the pupils occasion to use all their senses so that they gets personal and concrete experiences in their meeting with reality. This working method gives space for subject oriented activities, spontanous display and play, curious search, fantasy, experience and social fellowship.
Outdoor Education is about activating all the subjects in school in an integrated education, where outdoor – and indoor activities are close connected, because the pupils learns about reality in reality, that is about nature in nature, about society in society and about community in community.
Arne Jordet Nikolajsen, 1998
Outdoor education – literary education and sensory experience.
Outdoor education is a thematic and interdisciplinary fiels of research and education in the natural and cultural landscape arena. Through thematic studies and activities in the landscape, Outdoor Education tries to animate the often abstract concepts of the scientific disciplines, and thereby create a local history, ecological, and social sense of place amongst children and young people.
L-O. Dahlgren and A. Szczepanski, 1997