Outdoor Education and its Inclusion into Teaching at PdF MU: Support for the Use of Technology and the Implementation of Research Activities in the Undergraduate Education of Future Teachers
Outdoor Education and its Inclusion into Teaching at PdF MU: Support for the Use of Technology and the Implementation of Research Activities in the Undergraduate Education of Future Teachers
Contributor(s): Eduard Hofmann (Editor), Hana Svobodová (Editor)
Subject(s): Education, Regional Geography, Sociology, Preschool education, School education, Higher Education , Human Ecology, Environmental interactions, Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Outdoor Education; inclusion; Teachers; methodology; pedagogy; environment; Framework Educational Programme;
Summary/Abstract: The teaching material “Outdoor Education and its Inclusion into Teaching at PdF MU. Support for the Use of Technology and the Implementation of Research Activities in the Undergraduate Education of Future Teachers“ is the outcome of the project OP VVV Development of the process of undergraduate education at PdF MU: thorough preparation for good practice. One of the outcomes of the project was the preparation of innovative educational materials and courses. The courses were to reflect the educational areas within the updated Framework Educational Programme. In their content, there was to be a maximum connection of teaching with the use of cross-curricular topics. In the course of these, modern strategies for managing learning activities were to be adequately included.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-80-210-9917-3
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-80-210-9916-6
- Page Count: 202
- Publication Year: 2021
- Language: English
OUTDOOR EDUCATION AND ITS INCLUSION INTO TEACHING AT PDF MU
OUTDOOR EDUCATION AND ITS INCLUSION INTO TEACHING AT PDF MU
(OUTDOOR EDUCATION AND ITS INCLUSION INTO TEACHING AT PDF MU)
- Author(s):Eduard Hofmann, Hana Svobodová
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Education, School education, Higher Education , State/Government and Education, Sociology of Education
- Page Range:9-12
- No. of Pages:4
- Keywords:Outdoor teaching; school curriculum; skills;
- Summary/Abstract:Outdoor teaching is definitely not a product of nowadays. It has appeared in the school curriculum of several subjects for more than 100 years. The presented methodology does not primarily deal with the name origin of that teaching form, and thus we define it for the purposes of the presented publication as follows (Hofmann et al., 2003, p. 7; Svobodová et al., 2019): “Outdoor education can be defined as an “integrating” term denoting various forms of education with the outdoor setting of their common unifying feature. Outdoor education can take various organisational forms, from a walk, a field excursion or field exercise to a several-day school trip or residential outdoor school. Depending on the objectives and used teaching methods the pupils can be passive listeners and observers as well as researchers actively collecting and processing information from primary and secondary sources, with the help of research methods and aids offered by the individual science disciplines.“
USEFUL SCIENCE - WE STUDY NATURE AROUND US
USEFUL SCIENCE - WE STUDY NATURE AROUND US
(USEFUL SCIENCE - WE STUDY NATURE AROUND US)
- Author(s):Iva Frýzová, Tereza Češková, Miroslav Jireček, Petr Knecht
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences, Education, Regional Geography, School education, Environmental interactions, Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
- Page Range:15-77
- No. of Pages:63
- Keywords:Integrated Science; Social Studies; nature; education; outdoor education;
- Summary/Abstract:The course takes the form of a five-day course and is designed as a transition from field -oriented subjects Integrated Science and Social Studies base 1– 4 to field didactics. The aim of the course is to acquaint students with outdoor education as a specific teaching strategy, which should not replace ordinary teaching, but should, on the contrary, supplement and deepen the curriculum of individual disciplines in relation to the region. The emphasis of the course is placed on the possibility of implementing outdoor education in the curriculum of the educational area People and their world. During outdoor education, theoretical knowledge and skills are applied in the field of Geography, Geology, Biology, Ecology, Chemistry, Physics, History, Physical and Art education in exploring the place, in this case the unique environment of the Moravian Karst Protected Landscape Area.
USEFUL SCIENCE - THE KEY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
USEFUL SCIENCE - THE KEY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(USEFUL SCIENCE - THE KEY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT)
- Author(s):Eduard Hofmann, Hana Svobodová, Radek Durna, Darina Mísařová, Jaromír Kolejka, Tereza Češková, Miroslav Jireček
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Education, Regional Geography, School education, Human Ecology, Environmental interactions, Pedagogy
- Page Range:79-109
- No. of Pages:31
- Keywords:science; education; sustainability; outdoor education;
- Summary/Abstract:The title of the subject “Useful science - the key to sustainable development” reflects not only the overlap of educational areas, but also a shift from exploring the landscape to solving problems in the landscape using the knowledge and skills of individual disciplines, various forms of outdoor education, all of which lead to a common conclusion - sustainability. This course is designed for lower secondary school and lower grades of multi -year grammar schools in combination with the field of geography. Geography is taught at PdF MU in combination with biology, mathematics, civics, history, foreign languages and physical education. This course is a continuation of the course “Useful Science in many activities - we explore the landscape around us,” which is intended for primary school. Some activities overlap and it is possible to show the continuity and progression of individual activities, which reflect the specifics of the age peculiarities of pupils at lower secondary school. Both courses are focused on long -term forms of outdoor education in terms of time. Students who study at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, also have in their study programme short-term and medium -term forms of outdoor education and together with long -term forms, it forms a comprehensive system of outdoor education in a way that could work in primary and lower secondary schools as well. Field practices in the bachelor’s study of geography at the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University focus on individual geographical disciplines, follow each other and complement each other appropriately. E.g. cartographic knowledge and skills practiced in the field practice in the first year of study use all the following field practices in physical and socioeconomic geography. Linking the knowledge of all practices leads to complex practices in the regional geography of foreign countries and the Czech Republic. In the case of complex practices, we logically arrive at the connection of knowledge and skills from other natural sciences and social sciences and education.
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND SPRING SOJOURN IN NATURE
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND SPRING SOJOURN IN NATURE
(HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND SPRING SOJOURN IN NATURE)
- Author(s):Marek Trávniček, Jaroslav Vrbas
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Education, Preschool education, School education, Health and medicine and law, Environmental interactions, Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
- Page Range:111-129
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:Healthy lifestyle; spring sojourn; nature; education; outdoor education;
- Summary/Abstract:The course Healthy lifestyle and a spring sojourn in the outdoors is drafted as a several day long course focused on outdoor activities for children mostly at kindergartens and school trips, physical courses, field education and so on. The goal of this course is to open some basic findings from the field of hiking and sojourning in the outdoors with the aim of preventive health physical activities for children of the lower-school age. After finishing this course the student is prepared to understand and apply issues of a healthy, purposeful and ecologically approached sojourn in the outdoors focused on preventive health activities applied in terms of summer outdoor education for children of lower-school age. Emphasis is placed on specific physical, recreational, and relaxing activities in the outdoors. The course is offered even to students who do not have Učitelství pro 1. stupeň základní školy (program PdF, M-ZS5) as their major and it is organised as a 5 day long course. The requirement for obtaining the credit is active participation and fulfilling the conditions of the course to the full extent.
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND WINTER SOJOURN IN NATURE
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND WINTER SOJOURN IN NATURE
(HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND WINTER SOJOURN IN NATURE)
- Author(s):Jaroslav Vrbas, Marek Trávniček
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Education, Preschool education, School education, Health and medicine and law, Human Ecology, Environmental interactions, Sociology of Education
- Page Range:131-140
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Healthy lifestyle; winter sojourn; nature; education; outdoor education;
- Summary/Abstract:The course Healthy lifestyle and a sojourn in the winter countryside is designed as a multiday training course focused on the theoretical and practical introduction with outdoor activities for children of pre-school and lower school age mainly at winter outdoor schools, in physics courses and on field trips. The goal of this course is to open up general knowledge from the field of winter outdoor education with a focus on health preventive exercises with pre-school and lower-school age children. After completion of the course, students will be able to understand and apply in practice techniques connected with a healthy, efficient and ecologically approached sojourn in the winter countryside with a focus on health preventive activities applicable in the field of outdoor education with pre-school and lower-school age children within the framework of the equivalent competencies. The emphasis is placed on specific motional, recreational and relaxing activities in the winter countryside. The course is not only offered to student from the study programme is Primary Education Teaching (Programme PdF, M – ZS5) but also to other study programmes and the course takes seven days. Active participation during the whole course is a requirement for completing the course.
INTEGRATED LANGUAGE AND METHODOLOGY COURSE
INTEGRATED LANGUAGE AND METHODOLOGY COURSE
(INTEGRATED LANGUAGE AND METHODOLOGY COURSE)
- Author(s):Světlana Hanušová, Ailsa Marion Randall, Jaroslav Suchý, Alena Dobrovolná, Pavla Buchtová, Zuzana Kršková, Ondřej Krahulec, Filip Pultar, Ondřej Vitula, Marek Antal
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Education, Foreign languages learning, Higher Education , Methodology and research technology, Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
- Page Range:141-188
- No. of Pages:45
- Keywords:Integrated language; methodology course; English Department;
- Summary/Abstract:The English Department offers Bachelor and Master degree programmes. The graduates of these are qualified teachers of English at lower secondary schools. In the second year of the Bachelor programme (single-subject study plan), the students are required to participate in an Integrated Language and Methodology Course, which is based on experiential learning principles. Students in the other study programmes and study plans can take the course as optional. The course presents a reasonable intellectual, emotional, spiritual and social challenge. The participants have an opportunity of developing their communicative competence in English and teaching competences as well as their personalities. The course takes place in Dům Ignáce Stuchlého at Fryšták (the Zlín Region), a building offering accommodation, catering, and suitable number of well-equipped classrooms.
METHODOLOGY COURSE ON THE DEVELOPEMENT OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
METHODOLOGY COURSE ON THE DEVELOPEMENT OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
(METHODOLOGY COURSE ON THE DEVELOPEMENT OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL EDUCATION)
- Author(s):Petr Soják
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Education, Regional Geography, Environmental interactions, Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
- Page Range:189-202
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:methodology course; personal education; social education;
- Summary/Abstract:Lipnice nad Sázavou is a historical municipality, formerly a town in the Havlíčkův Brod District in the Vysočina Region. It is located at an altitude of 580m above sea level on the dominant landscape ridge on the border of middle and upper Posázaví. The municipality was founded at the beginning of the 14th century and has a rich history associated with the dominant feature of the village - Lipnice Castle. The castle was the residence of important aristocratic families, especially in the Middle Ages, and the townlet under the castle provided the economic background of the castle