The Project
About
The project ‘Outdoor Adventure Education through Physical Education’ (OutAdvEd) attempts to connect Outdoor-Adventure Education (OAE) and Teacher Education (TED) (initial, induction and continuous professional development), with a special focus on the promotion of Youth Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) within Physical Education (PE). The project is an innovative intervention focused on establishing a model OAE for SEL curriculum across the continuum of TED. The key objective is to encourage discourse around the provision of guidance, recognition and validation of teaching competences across the teaching continuum, starting with the continuum of Physical Education. OutAdvEd addresses the existing need for validating coherent material and educational policies, at a European level, which will help teachers seize the opportunities for high quality education mindful of tackling teaching challenges head-on.
The project is an innovative intervention focused on establishing a model OAE for SEL curriculum across the continuum of TED. The key objective is to encourage discourse around the provision of guidance, recognition and validation of teaching competences across the teaching continuum, starting with the continuum of Physical Education.
Outdoor Adventure Education (OAE)
Refers to a specialized form of experiential learning which focuses on promoting personal and social development, teamwork, and environmental awareness through adventurous activities and challenges.
Social-emotional learning (SEL)
It is the process of developing the self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal skills that are vital for school, work, and life success.
Why in Physical Education?
PE is a school subject that provides students multiple opportunities to achieve learning in the affective, cognitive, and psychomotor domains. A positive social and emotional climate in the Physical Education (PE) classroom allows for students to communicate and interact in beneficial ways. OAE can be used both as a context and as a content for achieving SEL outcomes in PE via setting the stage for the development of SEL skills in participants (Bean et al., 2018) and facilitating their transfer in other areas of living and learning.