OUT & ABOUT - Perspectives on Outdoor Education

RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM IN MALMÖ, SWEDEN

MALMÖ UNIVERSITY, SEPTEMBER, 28, 2011

Deadline for submission of abstracts: August 15, 2011

We are thrilled to invite you to an informal research symposium focusing on emerging research on outdoor education!
The conference is hosted by Malmö University in collaboration with the city of Malmö and the Skåne Region.

Conference language will be Swedish – papers and presentations in English are however most welcome. We especially encourage contributions from young researchers, Masters and Ph.D. students.

Background and aim of the symposium
Outdoor education is a rapidly growing field in Scandinavia, which is expressed as an increased interest in outdoor activities and learning in pre-schools and schools. The research symposium Out & About is preceding the third major conference in outdoor education for practitioners Ute är Inne – further information and programme on www.utenavet.se. The outdoor education field has developed in parallel with a strong tradition in social movements with a focus on outdoor activities, recreation, health promotion and nature conservation. This symposium will focus on outdoor education as a general phenomenon in a late modern, urbanized, transcultural, multimodal and – prospectively – sustainable society

Programme - Out & About

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Themes

Outdoor education – international and intercultural perspectives
Nature as an arena for learning
The extended classroom – exploring new opportunities
Sustainability and outdoor education
Representations of learning and health promotion in natural environments
The learning city – nature and culture in a new light

Call for abstracts
We invite you to submit abstracts in relation to the above topics. Deadline for abstracts is August 15, 2011. Abstracts should contain no more than 400 words. Participants with accepted abstracts will be asked to present papers at the symposium – further information about papers, set-up of sessions, proceedings, etc, will be communicated with the authors.

The Scientific Committee of the symposium will be encouraging innovative, emerging research topics and short papers/presentations in favour of previously published works.
Participation at the symposium will unfortunately be limited to those who have accepted abstracts/presenters.

Admission fee for symposium
The admission fee is 400 SEK and covers lunch, coffees and printed conference material. The fee shall be paid at registration on arrival in Malmö.

Social programme - related activities
The research symposium Out & About is preceding the Third Conference “Ute är Inne”, a major Scandinavian conference on outdoor education for practitioners. A special evening programme is arranged on the 28th at Limhamns kalkbrott (lime quarry) in collaboration with “Ute är Inne”. A limited number of seats are reserved for participants at Out & About. Please make a request for the evening programme when applying for the symposium.