Lucía Megino 18th-24th August

Biology and Geology teacher

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

To learn how to work with the outdoor environment as a classroom and teaching media and how to work with experience-based learning and sensory awareness as a support for learning in school

To develop personal and social skills through outdoor activities and lessons

To understand the health benefit gained by taking learning into the outdoors.

To gain knowledge about the theoretical basis of outdoor educational pedagogy, research and literature

To learn about outdoor pedagogy in a cross-cultural perspective and share experience and knowledge with others

To develop a personal activity plan – how to put new knowledge into action back home and how to support the school development in the field of outdoor learning

The course was held in Brokind close to Linköping in Sweden. We stayed in Vårdnäs Stiftsgård in a beautiful natural setting in the typical landscape among lakes.