Growing up urban: green spaces, education and youth!
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With this project, we will provide novel opportunities for youngsters to utilise urban city green spaces to contribute to the reciprocal well-being of humans, cities, and nature. This can be thought of as a way of feeding back into urban life, i.e., giving back to the places that support us. Indeed, in considering the well-being of the city, urban green spaces can present opportunities for places to be renewed and revitalized, breathing fresh life into the heart of built-up areas.
Urban areas offer great opportunities, but they can also present big challenges - especially for those with fewer advantages. A next-generation leadership, youth for youth, is needed to take up this challenge. Through understanding the needs and values of youth, parks and protected areas leaders must offer programmes that connect young people to nature and empower young people to be agents of change.
Additionally, in a society where traditional classroom settings often dominate the learning landscape, outdoor education provides a breath of fresh air by taking students beyond four walls and immersing them in the natural environment. This educational approach embraces the great outdoors as a dynamic and interactive classroom, offering a wide array of benefits and learning opportunities for students of all ages.
Through collaboration and shared methodologies, this project will enable the development and implementation of natural education curriculum innovation projects that are bespoke to the partners' circumstances, with the specific intention of demonstrating improved learning outcomes for partner-identified subgroups of learners. The project will be focused on Nature-based learning and understanding how to integrate outdoor activities and processes in every professional practice with usages of technology.
The overall aim of this project is to introduce urban settings and natural-based learning as an active, experiential approach to teaching and learning, open to all, that involves being outdoors as a central part of the experience. Our goal is to use the outdoor urban environment as a vehicle for transforming the experience into knowledge, skills, attitudes and actions. This project will foster excellence and innovation in education by equipping youth workers, teachers and educational staff with the basic knowledge and skills to integrate outdoor educational activities into their education programs.
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Short URL to this project:
http://otlas-project.salto-youth.net/17742