OUTDOOR EDUCATION PATRIK BERGHÄLL 2013 NATIONAL CONGRESS OF ADVENTURE EDUCATION IN ÅBO

OUTDOOR EDUCATION PATRIK BERGHÄLL 2013 NATIONAL CONGRESS OF ADVENTURE EDUCATION IN ÅBO 1

Today: Background Outdoor education in general Nature, where? How to use Best practise MeraUte! program 2

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. 3

Folkhälsan est. 1921 / Folkhälsans Förbund rf. Breidablick summer camp 1920 Outdoor education, recreation outdoors healthy lifestyle 4

Recreation - learning Nature & children From 1920 to feb 2000 to this time 5

2000 Adventure education Survival skills 2007 Outdoor Education Ute är Inne Linköping 2005 Friluftsliv logotype 2012 Outdoor education program MeraUte! Patrik 100% Gun Hoikkala 60% Mari-Sofi Johansson Others: 6

Outdoor Education Normal classroom education. Education indoors by books and films. Benfeits for many students in the move outdoors. Learning in a new landscape. The step is taken from indoors to outdoors. The use of ths school yard in nature skills and matematics. 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. 7 Transfer from the scoolyard to the nature. Nature in urban areas. Parts of the theory of adventure education.

School Activity Preparations before activity. Learning indoors. Samples, pictures, documentation. The teatcher collects these items. 8 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. Study of samples in the classroom. Wall of pictures from the activity. Picures or drawn memories from the day.

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. 9

Nature / Wilderness? Where and when? 10

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? 11

The forest vs. Wilderness 12 Children and adults has an different view of the word nature.

The wilderness is far away... The nature is near the school in Finland the situation is different than in other countries. 13

Finland, right, we have a lot of nature in our urban centras. Germany, right, a outoor classroom the area is planned for outdoor activities. 14

Realities 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? 15

How can we think different? How can we move the education outdoors? Think outside the traditional box 16

Our goal: to get the kids outdoors Outdoor education The school: it is good that the kids goes outdoors. 17

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. School yard Near surroundings Nature and urban areas New areas for learning 18

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! 20

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. 21

The cooperation between us and the school. Specific needs in education. Schools in urban areas? SWOT, our strength and possibilities. How can we refocus our skills in wilderness skills to outdoor education? Recent job history and how can we use present projects and programs in a new concept? What is already done? 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 Parks, fields 25

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. 26

Pictures tells more than words 27

Also classes 1, 2 and 6 28

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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 32

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