Outdoor Education to promote environmental and social inclusion values

Gain insights into utilizing sustainability as a tool for fostering social inclusion.

Engage in outdoor education activities to personally experience and learn methods for teaching the importance of preserving nature and its biodiversity. This course is based on the approaches that latest scientific research indicates to be efficient in environmental education.

We will guide you in discovering, through hands-on experience, diverse methods of outdoor education aimed at fostering environmentally and socially sustainable and responsible behaviors.

You will visit two organisations with expertise spanning 25-30 years in garden-based learning, permaculture and sustainable farming targeted to learners with fewer opportunities as well as to the broader public of all age groups.

Competences to be acquired:

Skills on using outdoor methods to promote environmental and social values

New knowledge about outdoor education, nature-based learning and garden-based learning.

New knowledge about ecological gardens, sustainable farming and permaculture philosophy.

New insights about the social and therapeutic benefits of gardening and nature.

Skills for implementing experiential and active learning methods in outdoor environments.

Training activities:

Day 1 – New approaches to environmental education

  • Fun exercises to build group cohesion
  • Science-based approaches to teach about climate change.

Day 2 – Treasure hunt in the Anaga forest

  • Creative outdoor education techniques
  • Creativity in game-based learning, gamification and heritage interpretation
  • Treasure hunt. Environmental Yincana Techniques

Day 3 – Activities at an Eco-farm

  • Using outdoor education and sustainability as tools for social inclusion.
  • The therapeutic benefits of nature  for learners with fewer opportunities

Day 4 - Outdoor games to promote social inclusion

  • Outdoor tools to promote team building, sense of belonging to the group and tolerance to diversity.
  • Optional: Field trip in Teide National Park with view to the sea and the 3700m Teide Volcano. Sustainable tourism. The potential of legends and drama in outdoor teaching. Using stargazing as an educational tool.

Day 5 - Permaculture and sustainable farming

  • Garden-based learning in groups.
  • Final evaluation.

Methodology:

Our focus is on showing the participants how the learners’ motivation increases when they become the actors of their own learning because the teacher takes the role of facilitator or learning guide.

Energizers, games and group reflections are foreseen daily in order to ensure a positive energy and a cooperative learning climate in the group.

We tailor our working methods based upon the participants‘ needs and professional profiles in order to ensure easier adaptability and application of the tools to the real life.

We will take care of you:

  • Support and Emergency Helpline Whatsupp group with all participants for easy communication and interaction between each other.
  • Delicious coffee break from a foundation employing disadvantaged people.
  • Useful pdf presentation with the most important information about food, transportation and places to visit in Tenerife.
  • Free afternoons to explore beauty of Tenerife.
  • Visit to Teide National Park – optional.
  • No requirements for accommodation, you can choose whatever you want (in the city where the course takes place).

After course:

  • Teaching materials in pdf to use in your classes afterwards.
  • Photos for dissemination.
  • The certificate of attendance and support with all documents needed.

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