ERIC Number: EJ1455033
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1350-4622
EISSN: EISSN-1469-5871
Pupils' Reflections on Experiences and Feelings in Meditation in Nature: An Intercultural Ecopedagogical Praxis in Outdoor Education
Environmental Education Research, v31 n1 p134-150 2025
Educational praxis incorporating intercultural wisdom, transdisciplinary cooperation, and nature-culture dialogues can arguably contribute to the UN's education for sustainable development (ESD) and ameliorate current social-ecological challenges. This article elucidates how 14 Norwegian pupils aged 11-13 reflect on their experiences and feelings in meditation in nature (MiN) -- an intercultural ecopedagogical praxis grounded on two corresponding philosophical ecopedagogies: Daoism and Arne Naess' ecosophy. The pupils participated in MiN as part of outdoor education in a local environment and provided reflections through semi-structured focus group interviews. By engaging in MiN and embracing the concept of "active nonaction," the pupils' reflections on experiences and feelings reveal meaningful human-nature interactions and aesthetic embodiments in/with nature. MiN is proposed as one ontological-epistemologically holistic, ecocentric, and aesthetic-affective ecopedagogical praxis that can potentially complement (post)critical and posthuman ecopedagogies and contribute to the reconfiguration of outdoor education and physical education for teaching and learning social-ecological, all-inclusive sustainable development.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Outdoor Education, Sustainable Development, Ecology, Ecological Factors, Student Attitudes, Holistic Approach, Intercultural Programs, Reflection
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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