Democratic Education in Nature
▶Summary
Responding to the needs of offering innovative pedagogical experiences promoting children's environmental stewardship and active citizenship, the project had the ambition to systematise and dissem...
▶Objectives
Responding to the needs of offering innovative pedagogical experiences promoting children's environmental stewardship and active citizenship, the project had the ambition to systematise and disseminate a new developing approach that bridges Nature Pedagogy with Democratic Education. Having the partners had a long term experience in this domain, they wanted promote a research on this approach and its application, a series of workshops and guidelines for schools.
▶Activities
The project was composed of three activities: Activity 1. Research. To explore the status of the art of democratic education in nature, through a countries based analysis and an European comparative study. Activity 2. Workshops: Organization of a series of workshops on the benefits of democratic education in nature and on exchange of practices. Activity 3. Guidelines: A series of guidelines for practitioners, to apply democratic education in nature at the European and national level
▶Impact
Tangible results have been the publication of the following documents -Research Report -Workshop proceedings -Guidelines to apply Democratic Education in Nature Intangible results will be: -professionalisation and exchange of competences of school applying Democratic Education in Nature -systematisation of this pedagogical approach -promotion of this pedagogy to traditional schools/ organisations not familiar with this approach yet -promotion of change in education policy development