FROM OUTDOOR EDUCATION TO OUTDOOR SCHOOLS: A NEW WAY OF TEACHING / DALL'OUTDOOR EDUCATION ALLE SCUOLE ALL'APERTO: UN NUOVO MODO DI INSEGNARE

Alessandra Natalini

doi:10.46827/ejes.v8i7.3802

Abstract

The contribution examines the most advanced national and international literature linked to the approaches underlying the models of Outdoor Education and Outdoor Schools, launching an examination of those studies that connect to the concrete benefits that such approaches would bring to the learning of students in contexts. schools and paying attention to those dimensions of teaching which are central to guaranteeing quality training and which should be integrated within a sustainable and integrated didactic action space. We retrace the first important experiences of pedagogues of the early twentieth century who, in the relationship between culture and nature, traced the way for a "green pedagogy" and paths of "green schools" up to the of "green schools" up to the most recent experiences, which today are the expression of an intense debate aimed at guaranteeing a school sustainable. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0870/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

Highlights

Le Scuole nel Bosco [The Schools in the Woods], are characterized by a modus vivendi, such as spending time outdoors and in the woods, using material from the natural environment, carrying out specific activities and games, such as role-playing ones, of imagination, listening to songs and stories, drawing, discovering, climbing, reflecting, etc., which allow the development of autonomy, creativity, social, motivational and cognitive skills in various fields (art, mathematics, expressing oneself in the mother tongue, etc.), knowledge, self-awareness, respect for the surrounding environment, memory, physical strength, endurance, physical coordination, etc
Gradually assuming an increasingly pedagogical character (Farnè, Bortolotti, & Terrusi, 2018, pp. 51-52). It is precisely starting from the thought of Giuseppina Pizzigoni that the idea of outdoor school and the conception of the central role played by nature in global education were established with the aim of ensuring the psycho-physical well-being of the person, elements that over time they have remained at the basis of contemporary culture, and still very relevant today (Chistolini, 2009)
The external environment and especially nature are considered formidable learning environments, placed in continuity with the external ones. Starting from this consideration, Outdoor Education allows the demolition of the managerial role of the teacher, bringing with it the development of the autonomy of the students, of the respect of the rules spontaneously by the children, who learn to assess the risks by putting themselves to the test “in the environment”

Summary

Introduction

Le Scuole nel Bosco [The Schools in the Woods], are characterized by a modus vivendi, such as spending time outdoors and in the woods, using material from the natural environment, carrying out specific activities and games, such as role-playing ones, of imagination, listening to songs and stories, drawing, discovering, climbing, reflecting, etc., which allow the development of autonomy, creativity, social, motivational and cognitive skills in various fields (art, mathematics, expressing oneself in the mother tongue, etc.), knowledge, self-awareness, respect for the surrounding environment, memory, physical strength, endurance, physical coordination, etc.

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