Outdoor Education and Experiential Learning in Schools and Kindergartens Exchange programme

Why study Outdoor Education and Experiential Learning?

Do you want to learn more about how to use the local environment of schools and kindergartens in education? Would you like to participate in learning activities connected to our local history and craftsmanship, learn methods of experiential based learning? Would you like to experience basic Nordic outdoor traditions, develop ways of teaching outdoors together with students from different cultural backgrounds? Are you interested in learning for sustainable development, ecology and  ecophilosophy in an educational context? Come to Norway and study our course in Outdoor Education and experiential Learning! The programme starts in the beginning of February.

Content

In the two modules of this study, outdoor activities and experiential learning are intertwined with theoretical aspects on outdoor education and place-based learning. Active participation individually and in groups in outdoor activities are essential. We work with practical skills and activities, storytelling and environmental learning. A variation of informal assessments and documentation of learning processes includes projects, individual written texts, oral presentations, storytelling, You will work with photography and graphics, video, animation and hypertexts.

In both modules there will be a focus on multimodal presentations and documentation. Through project work, students will, in addition to verbal text, be using various (digital) media forms to inform and to describe. On excursions and in classroom, activities will include photography and graphics, video, animation and hypertext.

We will be offering these two modules:

• Sense of place (15 ECTS)
• Experiential learning; field biology, ecology and nature philosophy (15 ECTS)

There will be a fee for the excursion in Nordic skiing. Charge: 3500,- NOK.