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OUTDOOR EDUCATION
PATRIK BERGHÄLL 2013
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF ADVENTURE EDUCATION IN ÅBO
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Background
Outdoor education in general
Nature, where? How to use
Best practise MeraUte! program
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Patrik Berghäll
Boy scouts 1980, mil 1993-1994
Survival skills 1995
Adventure programs in the archipelago
Folkhälsan since feb 2000
Adventure education, outoor education, survival skills, problem solving skills etc.
Private: military history (trying to produce books), outdoors, voluntary work in the
Finnish military reserve.
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Outdoor education,
recreation outdoors
”healthy lifestyle”
• Folkhälsan est. 1921 / Folkhälsans Förbund rf.
• Breidablick summer camp 1920
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Recreation - learning
Nature &
children
From 1920 to
feb 2000 – to
this time
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2000 Adventure
education
2007 Outdoor Education
Ute är Inne Linköping
2012 Outdoor education
program MeraUte!
Survival skills
Patrik 100%
2005 Friluftsliv logotype
Gun Hoikkala 60%
Mari-Sofi Johansson
Others:
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Outdoor Education
Normal classroom
education. Education
indoors by books and
films.
The use of ths school
yard in nature skills and
matematics.
Learning in a new
landscape. The step
is taken from
indoors to outdoors.
The learning is in focus
when the class travels
outdoors. The student
learn new skills and see
the natural things in the
real context. Repetition
is an key word for this
educational thinking.
GOAL: not only a one
day activity.
An outdoor educator takes
the class outdoors to
experience the nature.
Benfeits for many students in the
move outdoors.
Transfer from the scoolyard to the nature. Nature
in urban areas.
Parts of the theory of adventure education.
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School
Activity
Preparations
before activity.
Learning
indoors.
Samples, pictures,
documentation.
The teatcher collects these
items.
Power Point photo
show. (data, graphics,
languages)
Essay
Goal: to have the activity as an reflection point in the education. The teatcher
can take stuff and examples from the day.
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Study of samples
in the classroom.
Wall of pictures
from the activity.
Picures or drawn
memories from
the day.
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Place for activity
Near urban centras – Possible to
reach for the whole family – the
health impact is then larger than
only the student-the class and the
teacher.
New interactions between the
students and the teacher and
also the outdoor educator.
Team building in the class.
Important that all students
participate in the activity.
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Nature / Wilderness?
Where and when?
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Ser du skogen? Nä träden skymmer den..
Do you see the forest? No the trees are in front of it...
What do we
think about
nature?
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The forest vs. Wilderness
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Children and adults has an different
view of the word nature.
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The wilderness is far away....
The nature is
near the school
in Finland – the
situation is
different than
in other
countries.
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Finland, right, we have a lot of nature in our
urban centras. Germany, right, a outoor classroom
– the area is planned for outdoor activities.
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Realities
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Less money in the schools
Time – how to get the pupils to the forest
What do we have nearby that we can use?
How can we use these areas in education
purposes?
• How can we show simply models of teaching
outdoors?
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How can we think
different? How can
we move the
education
outdoors?
Think
outside the
traditional
box
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Our goal: to
get the kids
outdoors
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Outdoor
education
The school: it is
good that the
kids goes
outdoors.
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The school and the outdoors
Vid sidan av skolbyggnaderna och skolgården ska naturen och den byggda miljön utnyttjas i lärandet.
Naturen och den byggda och sociala miljö som omger skolan
ska också utnyttjas i undervisningen. Genom att undersöka sin
närmiljö ökar elevernas känsla och intresse för miljön och
ansvaret för att värna om miljön. Egna projekt och
möjligheter att delta i projekt och evenemang som är viktiga
för miljön ökar lärandets betydelse.
Skolan ska tillämpa mångsidiga undervisnings- och
arbetsmetoder och ge utrymme för kreativ verksamhet,
upplevelser och lekar som lämpar sig för olika åldrar. Arbetet
ska ordnas flexibelt med hänsyn till elevernas behov och
inlärningsmål. Eleverna ska vägledas så att de upptäcker och
använder arbetsmetoder som lämpar sig för dem.
Skolan ska identifiera olika former av lärande och systematiskt
använda sig av olika aktiviteter, konstnärliga uttrycksformer,
lärmiljöer och samarbete med den närmaste omgivningen.
Informations- och kommunikationsteknik samt webbmiljöer
ska användas för att berika studier, tankeverksamhet,
kreativitet, samarbete och interaktion.
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School yard
Near surroundings
Nature and urban
areas
New areas for
learning
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Nature improves learning ability - versatile environment
Nature improves memory capacity and concentration
The environment contributes to less conflict among children
The contact between teacher and student improvement
Nature improves motor skills
Nature helps children with ADHD
Nature provides healthier and calmer children
Nature improves student performance
Nature contributes to a more gender-neutral playground
Nature provides fewer sick days at school
Källor: vetenskapliga studier i ämnet i Sverige. Bland annat professorerna Anders
Sczcepanski samt Patrik Grahn. Från Frisk i naturen foldern.
Best Case MeraUte!
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INSPIRATION
Ute är inne
In Finland:
Mitt i naturen
and in Sweden
Ute är inne.
Projects in
Pargas with
Skräbböle
school about
oudoor
education.
Developement
of own
programs and
skills towards
the school.
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The
cooperation
between us
and the
school.
Specific needs
in education.
Recent job history and
how can we use
present projects and
programs in a new
concept? What is
already done?
Schools
in urban
areas?
SWOT, our strength
and possibilities.
How can we refocus
our skills in
wilderness skills to
outdoor education?
Produced material
that we can re use
or fit our needs.
How can we develop our skills and how can we cooperate broader
with the school? How can the Folkhälsan Philosophy be integrated
in the program (healthy habits-healthy life).
MeraUte!
Teaching grounds near
the school.
Vintern /
våren ca
140 elever
som deltog
To grab is to
understand!
Outdoors – you feel
better!
Fysisk hälsa
Psykisk hälsa
Social hälsa
Urban surrounding
Goals, small steps,
introduction and
then hope that the
school can use the
program it self.
Forest nature hills
Nature
surrounding
School yard
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Parks, fields
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How can we think
different? How can
we move the
education
outdoors?
Think
outside the
traditional
box
Project as an tool
Plays, problems, tools, maps, material to use to solve
problems / tasks
Main goal is learning by doing
When you plan education – think about the
possibilities to move out the learning.
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Pictures tells more than words
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Also classes 1, 2 and 6
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Diversity:
Urban area (start)
Fields
Animals
Power line
”Pitkospuita”
Wet nature
Bird tower
Old water cleaning factory
Oak forest
House from 1700 – century
Hill (normal forest)
Wilderness shelter
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