The evaluation of potential contributions of outdoor education – teacher’s versus pupil’s point of view
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of 25th Central European Conference Useful Geography: Transfer from Research to Practice |
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| Web | https://katedry.ped.muni.cz/geografie/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2018/04/svobodova_useful_geography_online_final.pdf |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-8908-2018 |
| Keywords | outdoor education; physical activity; elementary school; teacher; pupil |
| Description | The outdoor education (learning) is a natural part of school educational process mostly among nature sciences. The effectiveness of outdoor education is abroad supported by professional literature (Nundy, 1999; Foskett, 1997, Rickinson et al., 2004…). There is also another important benefit while students work in the field (outdoor) – the physical activity in the fresh air. During the 16-00695S projects we analyse the contributions of outdoor education for teaching geography and advance in physical abilities of pupils on elementary school. The aim of this paper is to introduce and to interpret teachers’ and pupils’ opinions on outdoor education benefits. The researches have used semi structured interviews with 19 teachers, teaching at primary and lower secondary model schools. The pupils of 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th grade of one of these model schools were subjected to a questionnaire survey, which was conducted to compare pupils’ abilities to solve the problem tasks in field (outdoor) and in class (indoor). The pupils’ attitudes to outdoor education were also monitored in the survey. |
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