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Environmental Education of Pupils with Special Needs

Publication at Faculty of Education |
2022

Abstract

The topic of education and upbringing of pupils in the natural environment belongs to the current topics of the present. Nature is a natural environment in which we have evolved over millions of years, and the need to stay in the natural environment is thus our evolutionary need.

However, in today's technology-oriented world, contact with nature is disappearing very quickly. A number of studies reveal a declining rate of living outside.

In connection with this, new terms are also emerging, such as "nature deficit disorder," used by the Richard Louv in his publication Last Child in the Woods. Thus, various educational and upbringing styles and other initiatives respond to the need for contact with nature, and it does not matter in which direction the children's relationship with nature will go and how the lack of living outside will affect their health.

The importance of being outdoors is verified by a number of studies, but is being outdoors beneficial to all children and pupils? How do pupils with special educational needs react to staying outside? The study is divorced into 2 parts: education pupils at school garden and education pupils with behavioural disorder in forest. Both of study includs interesting conclusions, for example any negative reaction of pupils at nature surrounding or oppositives between inclusive education and education in forest.