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HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND SPRING SOJOURN IN NATURE
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND SPRING SOJOURN IN NATURE

Author(s): Marek Trávniček, Jaroslav Vrbas
Subject(s): Education, Preschool education, School education, Health and medicine and law, Environmental interactions, Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Healthy lifestyle; spring sojourn; nature; education; outdoor education;
Summary/Abstract: The course Healthy lifestyle and a spring sojourn in the outdoors is drafted as a several day long course focused on outdoor activities for children mostly at kindergartens and school trips, physical courses, field education and so on. The goal of this course is to open some basic findings from the field of hiking and sojourning in the outdoors with the aim of preventive health physical activities for children of the lower-school age. After finishing this course the student is prepared to understand and apply issues of a healthy, purposeful and ecologically approached sojourn in the outdoors focused on preventive health activities applied in terms of summer outdoor education for children of lower-school age. Emphasis is placed on specific physical, recreational, and relaxing activities in the outdoors. The course is offered even to students who do not have Učitelství pro 1. stupeň základní školy (program PdF, M-ZS5) as their major and it is organised as a 5 day long course. The requirement for obtaining the credit is active participation and fulfilling the conditions of the course to the full extent.