Outdoor Education and Outdoor Didactics, 14 ECTS credits

Environmental issues, ecology and sustainable development run through the course like a scarlet thread, where the natural and cultural heritage constitute the basis. The course thus elucidates outdoor education as an environmentally focused thematic field of education and research, at the same time as it accentuates the specific aspects of the outdoor didactics field of knowledge: that is to say, the application of both non-textually based practices, such as culture and the natural landscape, and text-based practices are illustrated.

The course also treats how mathematical, physical, chemical, technical and cultural phenomena, traces of natural forces and human activity in the natural and cultural landscape are communicated through the symbols mediated by the landscape.

In the field-based elements of the course are also treated health aspects of outdoor education, different styles of learning and the importance of a varied outdoor environment for concentration, learning, health and motor development.

Course code: 917A11

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