Incorporating environmental educational elements in adventure programs. Case: Adventure House.
Kulovesi, Mari (2020)
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020112724830
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The goal of this thesis was to examine the literature of environmental and adventure education to combine them as an activity for the commissioner Adventure House. Adventure House is working under the city of Helsinki’s youth division. Adventure House offers adventure educational day activities for mainly secondary school groups. The need for his study rose when Adventure House went under the environmental division and became part of EcoCompass standards. Therefore the need came to be able to offer also environmental educational activities in the Adventure House.
The objective of this thesis was to develop environmental activities to be incorporated within the adventure program already done in the Adventure House. The development work was done using qualitative researched based method of interviews and community-based participatory development method of brainstorming. Four professionals of the field of environmental or/and adventure education were interviewed. Brainstorming was done with the commissioner. The analysis part was done using mind maps and transcrips from the interviews. Based on the interviews the most important finding was the importance of cooperation. Another important discovery was the theme for the activities, which was going to be climate change.
The final product developed for this thesis was three separate environmental educational activities with the theme of climate change. The acitivities were sea observation, solution factory and tale of an animal. They were developed using the results of the interviews and brainstrorming as well as using the knowleadge base. The results indicates that it is possible to combine environmental and adventure education together as a functioning activity.
The objective of this thesis was to develop environmental activities to be incorporated within the adventure program already done in the Adventure House. The development work was done using qualitative researched based method of interviews and community-based participatory development method of brainstorming. Four professionals of the field of environmental or/and adventure education were interviewed. Brainstorming was done with the commissioner. The analysis part was done using mind maps and transcrips from the interviews. Based on the interviews the most important finding was the importance of cooperation. Another important discovery was the theme for the activities, which was going to be climate change.
The final product developed for this thesis was three separate environmental educational activities with the theme of climate change. The acitivities were sea observation, solution factory and tale of an animal. They were developed using the results of the interviews and brainstrorming as well as using the knowleadge base. The results indicates that it is possible to combine environmental and adventure education together as a functioning activity.