PEOPLE, PLACE, AND THE PROGRAM: EXTERNAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS
PEOPLE, PLACE, AND THE PROGRAM: EXTERNAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Author(s): Jan Činčera, Petra Šimonová
Subject(s): Environmental Geography, Applied Geography, School education, Pedagogy
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Outdoor environmental education programs; leaders; teachers; students;
Summary/Abstract: Drawing on the existing scholarship and the authors’ professional experience, this chapter discusses the external factors that influence outdoor environmental education programs: students, teachers and leaders, and nature. It examines some of the issues that have emerged in our research, such as the unpreparedness of student groups to learn in outdoor settings, the market-based framing of the relationship between schools and outdoor centers, and the ambiguous effects of pushing students beyond their comfort zones in the outdoors. The chapter concludes by highlighting some of the key decisions related to program design, namely the program’s length and the program’s linking with school curricula.

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