Nature schools in the Republic of Serbia

Ivanović Bibić, Ljubica and Ristanović, Branko and Sekulić, Milena and Jovanović, Tamara and Milošević, Dragana and Šimaček, Petr (2021) Nature schools in the Republic of Serbia. In: Назив зборника THE 5TH SERBIAN CONGRESS OF GEOGRAPHERS - INNOVATIVE APPROACH AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE APPLIED GEOGRAPHY. University of Novi Sad | Faculty of Sciences Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Novi Sad, pp. 239-248. ISBN 978-86-7031-589-1

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Abstract

The first open-air schools date back to the Middle Ages. Today, teaching in nature represents a form of educational work that covers compulsory subjects, elective programs, project-based learning, and ex- tracurricular activities in the curriculum for the first cycle of primary education. This kind of work is car- ried out in climate-friendly places for health-recreational and educational reasons. To determine how much class teachers in the Republic of Serbia do this type of work, a questionnaire was developed and distributed to over 100 elementary schools. The research results show that teaching in nature is mostly carried out in the fourth grade, most often in the mountains, in the month of May, lasting for 7-8 days. The suggested hypotheses predict statistically significant differences between the attitudes of teachers of different gender, years of work experience, school location, and regarding whether teachers conduct classes in nature at all, in different grades.

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