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HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND WINTER SOJOURN IN NATURE
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND WINTER SOJOURN IN NATURE

Author(s): Jaroslav Vrbas, Marek Trávniček
Subject(s): Education, Preschool education, School education, Health and medicine and law, Human Ecology, Environmental interactions, Sociology of Education
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Healthy lifestyle; winter sojourn; nature; education; outdoor education;
Summary/Abstract: The course Healthy lifestyle and a sojourn in the winter countryside is designed as a multiday training course focused on the theoretical and practical introduction with outdoor activities for children of pre-school and lower school age mainly at winter outdoor schools, in physics courses and on field trips. The goal of this course is to open up general knowledge from the field of winter outdoor education with a focus on health preventive exercises with pre-school and lower-school age children. After completion of the course, students will be able to understand and apply in practice techniques connected with a healthy, efficient and ecologically approached sojourn in the winter countryside with a focus on health preventive activities applicable in the field of outdoor education with pre-school and lower-school age children within the framework of the equivalent competencies. The emphasis is placed on specific motional, recreational and relaxing activities in the winter countryside. The course is not only offered to student from the study programme is Primary Education Teaching (Programme PdF, M – ZS5) but also to other study programmes and the course takes seven days. Active participation during the whole course is a requirement for completing the course.