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Merete Lund Fasting; Jannicke Høyem – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
This study conveys how young adults reflect upon their childhood experiences and memories of outdoor play, friluftsliv and outdoor places. Inspired by a phenomenological approach, we conducted walking interviews in nature areas where they used to play as children, revisiting the same informants and places as in a research project 14 years earlier.…
Descriptors: Play, Positive Attitudes, Recreational Activities, Reflection
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Natalia Kucirkova; Monika Kamola – Educational Action Research, 2024
This study is a researcher-practitioner action inquiry which was used to explore children's sensory experiences with a focus on the sense of smell (olfaction). We critically considered the early childhood theories that positioned children's sensory learning within equitable, socially just early childhood approaches and connected them to an action…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Olfactory Perception, Sensory Experience
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Standal, Øyvind F.; Bratten, Judith H. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: The literature on movement capability critiques the traditional content of physical education (i.e. the what of physical education) and the subject's reliance on teacher-led methods (i.e. the how of physical education). By re-focusing the content as well as the teaching methods of physical education, the literature on movement…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Movement Education, Student Centered Learning, Holistic Approach
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Dansholm, Kerenina K. – Journal of Social Science Education, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this research is to investigate youth understandings of citizenship against the dual backgrounds of inclusive citizenship education and exclusionary discourse in the public sphere. Design / methodology / approach: The topic was explored through group interviews with 10th grade students, while the emergent theme of material or…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Citizenship Education, Grade 10, Secondary School Students
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Myhre, Tone Stuler; Fiskum, Tove Anita – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2021
This article explores how Norwegian teenagers experienced the development of spoken fluency of English as a second language (L2) through varied and sensuous learning in an outdoor environment. The article is based on six semi-structured group interviews with 23 year-8 students (13-14 years old) in a lower secondary school in Norway. The interviews…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Grade 8
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Beery, Thomas; Jørgensen, Kari Anne – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Given concerns for a severely diminished childhood experience of nature, coupled with alarm for a rapidly diminishing global biodiversity, this article considers the potential for childhood nature experience to be an important part of biodiversity understanding. Findings from two studies are integrated and presented as windows into childhood…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Biodiversity, Natural Resources, Semi Structured Interviews