Advantages and disadvantages of forest kindergarten in Czech Republic

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.186" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.186</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Advantages and disadvantages of forest kindergarten in Czech Republic

Original language description

The aim of the paper is to describe advantages and disadvantages of forest kindergarten in Czech Republic from stakeholder's point of view. In the light of qualitative data obtained from semi structured interviews and observation in 3 forest kindergarten and document analyses we are answering of this question: What are advantages and disadvantages of forest kindergarten education from different stakeholder's point of view? We present this advantages and disadvantages as characteristics of forest kindergarten: aspects of the society (e.g. increasing the capacity of preschool education, man and woman teachers, experience of parents), parents' lifestyle (e.g. whole day children staying in nature, alternative education, food), educational areas (e.g. creativity, positive approach to nature, social behaviour, emotional development, development of both gross and fine motoric), children's' health (e.g. physical condition of children, immunity of children, environment of forest kindergarten), safety (e.g. risks, insect, small injuries, hygienic). In the conclusion we relate to existing empiric investigations and theoretical knowledge of the possibility to compare common kindergarten and forest kindergarten.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AM - Pedagogy and education

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

Procedia - social and behavioral sciences

ISBN

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ISSN

1877-0428

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

738-744

Publisher name

Elsevier

Place of publication

AMSTERDAM

Event location

Kyrenia, CYPRUS

Event date

Oct 22, 2014

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000380543800102