Winter outdoor trekking: spiritual aspects of environmental education

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15510/17:73578397

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2016.1149553" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2016.1149553</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2016.1149553" target="_blank" >10.1080/13504622.2016.1149553</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Winter outdoor trekking: spiritual aspects of environmental education

Original language description

This text deals with the potential spiritual aspects of being outdoors within the framework of non-formal and informal education. The course being examined was organized by the Vacation School of Lipnice – Outward Bound Czech Republic, and the participants in this course made up the research sample. While the research was not directly focused on the spiritual dimension of the human way of being, our analysis of the interviews (n = 12) and the results of the Prague Spirituality Questionnaire (n = 10) indicate a connection between the fortnight spent trekking through the winter landscape and spirituality in terms of the educational potential it has for personal development. The data obtained in the interviews may be structured into the following main semantic fields connected with nature: naturalness, the element of fire, senses, aesthetic perceptions, bad weather, and spiritual dimension. In the questionnaire respondents were inclined to include factors such as ethical enthusiasm, sense of belonging, and deep ecology. The results may be interpreted as suggesting that due to the immediacy of direct experience the two-week-long trekking journey in the winter landscape (snowshoeing and camping in tents) reinforces a dimension of environmental education that surpasses any rational verification and enters the spiritual realms.

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

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

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

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

1-22

UT code for WoS article

000390588900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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