Browsing by Subject "yhteistoiminnallisuus ja hyvinvointi"

Today’s crucial problems in postindustrial society, appear to be according to study of leisuretime and sport researches, children’s weakened endurance and inactive lifestyle. The health risks caused by sedentary lifestyle have an impact to majority of the school students. Beeing aware of these kind of problems as a starting point to my Bachelor Theses, I try to study, how Out Door Adventure Education (OAE) as a teaching method could improve children’s more physically active lifestyle in school. In my research i aim to perceive the essential traditions of OAE in Finland, the main features and elements of it and simply, how this method can be utilized and applied in many different ways on the field of education. In the process, I discuss which kind of education goals, values, learner image and approach to learning OAE has, where the roots originate from and how these ideas are sitting in today’s education work. Which kind of benefits seems to be the most crucial from adolescent wellfare point of you? I approached my research intrests with the hepl of the integrative literature reviw. The literature consists of wellbeing literature, OAE articles, collection books of OAE articles, 2 dissertation and 4 master’s thesis. The history of Finnish Outdoor Adventure Eduction as a reform pedagogue and current state as constructivist and experiental learning method, I studied by familiarizing my self with Finnish theory books of OAE. I was interdisciplinary observing my study field regarding theories and empirical studies to figure out which kind of wellbeing effetcts OAE has reported and what kind of views are not yet included in the research. The results of my studies suggest that the main idea in OAE is to learn and improve cooperative skills, group coherence, motivation, autonomy, participation, responsibility, perseverance, resilience, personal growth, self-concept, and understanding of own world relations by reflecting own and shared adventure peak experiences. In my studie, I have shared the field of OAE in 4 different kind of target groups: Adventurous Teaching, Adventure Sport, Outdoor Adventure and Therapeutic OAE. In the light of my literature review, by using OAE methods, it is possible to improve adolescents menthal, physical and social wellbeing. Outdoor Adventure Education might also reinforce relationship with nature and encourage for more physicly active lifestyle. Especially objective wellbeing and recilience is worth for futher study.