Theories and Practice of Outdoor Education and Learning, 17 ECTS credits

The course has an environmental profile and is laborative, treating learning for sustainable development. The content proceeds from current research on man's relationship with the physical environment and the importance of the natural outdoor environment for health and mobility. Through laborative, experimental and field-based forms of work the pedagogical effects of physical activity are studied. Knowledge in action and reflection in action are practiced in natural and outdoor environments from theoretical perspectives drawn from both physical geography and biology. Further, the importance of evolutionary and cultural history perspectives on learning are taken up.

Central concepts that are emphasised are: pragmatism, constructivism, situated learning, reform and learning by doing. The course also elucidates the connection between cognitive research and neuropedagogy. Similarly, a survey is provided of earlier traditions in the field, of theoretical and practical educational ideals, the difference between theory and practice in the modern school as well as of educational philosophy traditions concerning questions of the nature of reality.

The course will approach writing from a micro perspective in order to increase students' awareness of different kinds of text structure and to practice writing with grammatical accuracy and in a manner that is suitable to the task in hand. There will be a special focus on citations and regulations of plagiarism.

Course code: 917A10

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