Education and Historical Origins of Outdoor in Turkey
Abstract
In this study, we provide information about what outdoor education is, its benefits, and information about the process, in Turkey and in the world, from the past to the present day is given. Furthermore, the applicability of non-classroom education in the philosophical bases on which the Turkish education system is based is emphasized. In our study, document analysis was used in qualitative research methods. We think that the positive effect of the environment on the child in this process, which started with the Ionian philosophers and continues with Sobel, has an important role in understanding and solving today's educational and environmental problems. We are beginning to see more and more of the adverse effects of environmental problems in the 20th Century that various technological activities developed to solve these problems and various laws put in place to prevent environmental problems are not enough. It is emphasized by many authors that these problems can only be achieved by changing individual behaviors. The places where we can change behavior in individual sense are the schools. In order to give environment and nature education to schools, new quests have been entered and among them the most outstanding technique is education outdoor. The benefits that outdoor education provides to children have been the subject of educational sciences and support the positive effects of nature on scientific work done. As a result, it is considered that outdoor education should be practicable and disseminated at every level within the education system in Turkey.
Keywords
outdoor education,historical origins of outdoor education,Turkish education system,document analysis
References
- ABBOTT, J. and RYAN, T. (1999) ‘Consstructing Knowledge, Reconstructing Schooling’ Educational Leadership, November, s 66–69.
- AKYÜZ, Y. (1993) Türk Eğitim Tarihi. 4. Baskı. İstanbul: Kültür Koleji Yay.
- AKYÜZ, Y. (1997/1) Türk Eğitim Tarihi. İstanbul: İstanbul Kültür Yayınları No.1.
- AKYÜZ, Y. (1997/2) Türk Eğitim Tarihi. İstanbul: İstanbul Kültür Yayınları No.1.
- ALKAN, C., D. DERYAKULU ve N. ŞİMŞEK. (1995) Eğitim Teknolojisine Giriş. Ankara, Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi 43,2 (2003) 133–149 DOI: 10.1501/Dtcfder_0000000176
- ATASOY, E. (2005) Çevre İçin Eğitim: İlköğretim Öğrencilerinin Çevresel Tutum Ve Çevre Bilgisi Üzerine Bir Çalışma. Doktora Tezi, Uludağ Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Bursa.
- BARTLETT, S. (1996) Access to outdoor play and ıts ımplications for healthy attachments. Unpublished article, Putney, VT.
- BASİLE, C. G. (2000) Environmental education as a catalyst for transfer of learning in young children. The Journal of Environmental Education, 32 (1), 21–27.
- BİLGİN, H. (1996), Okul öncesi eğitim kurumlarında çalışan öğretmenlerin tutumlarının incelenmesi, Yayınlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Marmara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Anaokulu Öğretmenliği Bilim Dalı, İstanbul
- BİNBAŞIOĞLU, C. (1982) Eğitim Düşüncesi Tarihi, Ankara, Binbaşıoğlu yayınevi,