Empowerment in outdoor environmental education: who shapes the programs?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14230/20:00114301

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2020.1814205" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2020.1814205</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2020.1814205" target="_blank" >10.1080/13504622.2020.1814205</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Empowerment in outdoor environmental education: who shapes the programs?

Original language description

Empowerment is often considered to be a central goal in outdoor education and environmental education. To develop student empowerment, a frequent recommendation is for the leaders of outdoor environmental education programs to provide students with a high level of autonomy through an emancipatory approach, by involving them in the decision-making processes about and during the programs. The study analyzes the strategies applied in five outdoor environmental education programs to involve students in shaping the programs. Further, it discusses the concepts of the program leaders, the accompanying teachers, and the participating students regarding how and whether such student involvement should be implemented. The findings show that while student involvement is achievable, most of the leaders and teachers questioned its effectiveness and expressed concern regarding the students&apos; ability to provide meaningful suggestions about the program. As a result, most of the leaders preferred instrumental programs, with few opportunities for students to shape the program. Instead, the leaders focused on enjoyable and attractive learning activities prepared by external program designers. The study argues for an adoption of an open and pluralistic approach to the practice, one that would accept both instrumental and emancipatory strategies as relevant for program design and implementation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-15374S" target="_blank" >GA18-15374S: Promoting Behavioral and Value Change through Outdoor Environmental Education</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environmental Education Research

ISSN

1350-4622

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

1690-1706

UT code for WoS article

000566639200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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