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A park, a square, a garden, a patch of forest, a coastline or a courtyard planted with vegetation… How about a massive expansion of the outdoor classroom in schools, colleges and universities? It is possible, and it’s a health, social, educational and environmental priority!
Initiated by the Fabrique des Communs Pédagogiques, in partnership with the Académie d’Aix-Marseille, the City of Marseille, the Ligue de l’Enseignement and numerous organisations from the fields of teaching and research, popular education, ecology and the protection of the living, the Rencontres internationales de la classe dehors will be held from the 14th to 17th of May 2025 in Marseille in an open and friendly spirit.
For this second edition, our theme will be the element water and Italy will be the guest country of honour.
THE MEETINGS HAVE TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS
The professional meetings of the Rencontres Internationales de la Classe Dehors are dedicated to exchanges, training and networking between professionals. They are designed to encourage mutual enrichment between practitioners, researchers and others involved in outdoor education.
The programme designed by the Fabrique des Communs Pédagogiques is based on proposals from communities that identify with the outdoor classroom initiative.
Professional Meetings
The aim of these professional meetings is to create a collective dynamic and enrich outdoor educational practices, while encouraging exchange and collaboration between the various players in the field.
Find out more: link to upcoming meetings programme is coming soon
Teaching Outdoors
To enjoy outdoor experiences and to celebrate the encounters with the people of Marseille, all educators will be invited to go outside to learn from 11 May to 18 May 2025, near their school, social centre, leisure centre and in sponsored key locations in Marseille (educational gardens, squares, natural spaces, cultural venues, streets, etc.).
Find out more: link to the forthcoming “Les enfants enchantent Marseille” programme coming soon
The meetings are supported by :
A medialab
Designed to share knowledge and experience, our Medialab is a collective facility for co-production and storytelling. It includes,
- A hackathon to create educational resources
- A studio for recording podcasts and videos
- Photographers and cartoonists will be on hand throughout the event
A Conciergerie
The role of the “Conciergerie” in a third place is to welcome and provide information to people. A team of concierges, who bring together the skills, resources and goodwill of everyone involved, will accompany and guide participants as they discover and gradually adopt this way of working.
FROM NURSERY SCHOOL TO UNIVERSITY
Teaching outdoors refers to a teaching practice that takes place regularly in the natural and cultural environment surrounding the classroom (inside or outside the school), in an interdisciplinary way and by taking advantage of all the school’s learning areas.
Simply put, to teach outside is teaching, outside.
Teaching outdoors in the vicinity should not be considered as a simple school outing. Teaching outdoors does not exclude teaching indoors, or even defining nature exclusively as places far from city centres. Nature is often at our doorstep, and counting, reading, reciting poetry, writing, practicing physical activities and plastic arts, singing, playing are all compatible with the outdoors.
