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Cultivarea atitudinii pozitive faţă de mediul înconjurător prin drumeţii şi excursii şcolare
Cultivating positive attitude towards the environment through hiking and school trips

Author(s): Daniela-Dorina Teisanu
Subject(s): Education and training
Published by: Asociația Cultural Științifică „Dimitrie Ghika-Comănești”
Keywords: nature; outdoor activities; quality life; attitude;

Summary/Abstract: Activities with students in local horizon facilitate transition from concrete to abstract thinking and vice versa, being the most effective place for exemplification and experimentation for understanding causality of phenomena and their evolution in time. Affective states are achieved, emotional feelings and feelings of children’s attachment to their native places. Great geographer George Valsan said about local horizon: „local horizon is the former home of the child ... „. Training and educating students in the spirit of high human responsibilities include a number of educational areas such as: developing a positive attitude towards the environment surrounding the conviction that environmental quality is essential to the health of the environment. The research in nature, with students, enriches the knowledge base, referral mutual links between phenomena and not least the need to love and protect the natural environment.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 307-313
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian