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SYLLABUS

Outdoor Education and Outdoor Didactics, 15 ECTS Credits

COURSE CATEGORY   Single Subject Course MAIN FIELD OF STUDY   Pedagogik - PEA SUBJECT AREA   Pedagogical work   COURSE CODE   917A15

AIM OF THE COURSE

• a developed ability to describe, interpret and explain traces of natural forces and human activity in the landscape • knowledge of the link between nature and human ecology • expanded knowledge of and accomplishments in natural environments and outdoor life as means and method to develop and exercise practical leadership • increased understanding and knowledge of the importance of different factors in learning and the impact of the environment on pupils’ understanding • deeper knowledge of outdoor didactics in relation to different subject areas and themes • a developed ability autonomously to seek out and critically examine source material relevant to the field.

CONTENTS

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.

TEACHING

Instruction takes place mainly in outdoor environments with the natural landscape as point of departure. Forms of work are varied and comprise laborative field studies and field analyses, excursions, lectures, seminars, study visits, literature study, individual written work and self-instruction.

EXAMINATION

Testing is done continuously by written and oral individual reflective tasks connected to the activities of each course meeting. Literature is examined in literary seminars. Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course two times are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination. Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

At least one year of full-time undergraduate studies. Documented knowledge of English equivalent to "Engelska B/Engelska 6, i.e. English as native language or an internationally recognized test, e.g. TOEFL (minimum scores: Paperbased 575 + TWE-score 4.5, internetbased 90 TWE-score 20), IELTS, academic (minimum score: Overall band 6.5 and no band under 5.5), or equivalent.

GRADING

The course is graded according to the ECTS grading scale A-F.

CERTIFICATE

Course certificate is issued by the Faculty Board on request. The Department provides a special form which should be submitted to the Student Affairs Division.

COURSE LITERATURE

Beard, C., Wilson, J.P. (2006) Experiential Learning, a best practice handbook for Educators and Trainers. Kogan Page, UK ISBN 0-7494-4489-4 (285 p.) Martin Braund and Michael Weiss (2004) Learning Science Outside The Classroom., Routledge Falmer, UK, ISBN 0-415-32117-4 (238 p) Bourne, B. (1999) Taking Inquiry Outdoors – Reading, Writing, and Science Beyond the Classroom Walls, Stenhouse Publ, ISBN 1 57110 302 3 (139 p.) Cornell, J. (1998) Sharing Nature with Children, Dan Publ, ISBN 1-883220-73-4 (172 p.) (315 p.) Louv. R. (2008) Last child in the woods. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ISBN 13:978-1-56512-605-3. (357 p.) Ogilvie, Ken, C. (2005) Leading and Managing Groups in the Outdoors. Institute for Outdoor Learning. UK. Orr, David W. (1994) Earth in Mind, Island P, US, ISBN 155963295X (210 p.) Some articles and unprinted material will be handed out at lectures and seminars.

OTHER INFORMATION

Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus. The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.

Outdoor Education and Outdoor Didactics Outdoor Education and Outdoor Didactics   Department responsible for the course or equivalent: IKK - Department of Culture and Communication             Registrar No: 242/07-41   Course Code: 917A15           Exam codes: see Local Computer System       Subject/Subject Area : Pedagogik - PEA                       Level   Education level     Subject Area Code   Field of Education   A1X   Advanced level     PE1   NA   The syllabus was approved by the Board of Educational Sciences 2015-05-07