Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21464/mo.29.1.5
Outdoor education in an elementary school curriculum
Ema Zelembrz
orcid.org/0000-0002-1229-1680
; August Cesarec Elementary School, Špišić Bukovica, Hrvatska
Senka Žižanović
orcid.org/0000-0002-6715-6507
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia
Mirko Lukaš
orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-3035
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
Outdoor education is a link between life and school and an indispensable component of modern education. Considering its exceptional pedagogical value, the main goal of this research is to get an insight into the presence and form of outdoor education implementation in elementary schools. For that purpose, seventy-three school curricula from Osijek-Baranja County were analyzed. The analysis of curriculum content includes not only different forms of outdoor education, their presence in one teacher education and subject teaching but also education areas prescribed by the national curriculum. The thesis points out the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of outdoor education within particulars education areas. Also, education areas in which improvements in planning and realization of outdoor education were detected. It is necessary to look for didactic methodical solutions in education areas in which diversity of outdoor education integration is noticed.
Keywords
forms of outdoor education; education area; elementary school; school curriculum
Hrčak ID:
279506
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Publication date:
21.6.2022.
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