Professional meetings
The Rencontres internationales de la classe dehors is a collective construction based on a broad mobilisation of players from the national education system, environmental education, popular education, local authorities, research, groups of architects, designers, teachers, creative people, IT specialists, parents, public establishments, cultural institutions, etc. Each individual or organisation can contribute to the Rencontres with time and skills, ideas and networks, funding or the loan of equipment.
Everyone, either individually or as part of an organisation, can make a contribution to the conference in terms of time and skills, ideas and networks, funding or the loan of equipment. In particular, participants are invited to suggest themes for the various events. To take part, all they have to do is fill in the proposal form on the Rencontres website.
The professional meetings are aimed primarily at :
National education staff
Associations and committed citizens
Students and researchers
Public officials and elected representatives
Cultural players and those involved in urban development
The Spaces
The park and the various areas for hosting professional meetings will be made public shortly.
The programme
The workshops and training courses are the main feature of the Professional Meetings for all the event’s professional participants.
Most of the workshops and training sessions will take place in the main conference centre. Others will take place at venues partnering with the Rencontres.
For teaching staff in Marseille, workshops can be held at your school or college at lunchtimes upon request.
In addition to the workshops and training courses, a range of events will be on offer:
Conferences and roundtables: researchers, thinkers, practitioners, elected representatives and children will explore the many facets of outdoor learning in the context of the ecological and social crisis.
Educational walks: the design and implementation of educational walks will be offered as a way of getting acquainted with the area hosting the Rencontres and learning about this practice.
Participatory workcamps will be used to build light facilities (e.g. a forest sofa). Volunteers, local residents and professionals will all be involved in a friendly and supportive environment.
There will also be a knowledge exchange, an outdoor fablab, exhibitions, film screenings, theatre and a Night of the Encounters!
Click here for workshop formats and an extract from the programme
1 – Major workshops
Lasting a minimum of three hours, the major workshops are designed to bring together a wide range of educational players for sessions at the crossroads of academic research and practical experience in the field. These training sessions, which will be the main focus of the Rencontres, are co-constructed with the Fabrique des Communs Pédagogiques and several partners.
Extract from the programme
Outdoor education: training methodologies, skills and didactic contributions
Creating educational walks with your pupils
Educational areas and the outdoor classroom
Educational vegetable gardens
Outside the walls: the legacy of the maquis in popular education
2 – Exchanges of practice
Lasting between one and two hours, the practice-sharing sessions are designed to provide a forum for discussion between professionals, based on their own experiences.
Extract from the programme
Taking colleagues from my school into the classroom outdoors?
Reading Giono outdoors
The outdoor classroom in educational estates
Dialogue between those involved in popular and environmental education and those involved in urban development.
3 – Feedback
Lasting between one and two and a half hours, the feedback sessions aim to present practical initiatives that have already been implemented to facilitate and provide training in outdoor learning.
Extract from the programme
Discovering careers in environmental education
The role of the outdoor education officer in an education authority
Leisure centre: Wednesday afternoons outdoors
At the school of life, teaching environmental sciences
Experiments and prospects for the Travaux d’Ecole exhibition
Educational trail: from water to source
4 – Taking my outdoor learning project forward
Lasting from one to two and a half hours, these workshops aim to present a problem encountered in a project or action relating to the outdoor classroom and to co-design a concrete response.
Extract from the programme
(in preparation)
Integrating the outdoor classroom into a local authority’s climate risk prevention plan (local authority club)
Drafting a NEFLE project for the outdoor classroom (Les profs ambassadrices de la classe dehors)
Towards a manifesto for a child-friendly, emancipating and inclusive city (ANDEV, RFVE, Ceméa)
Mobilising the national education reserve to support the outdoor classroom (Défense des Enfants International – France)
5 – Proposal for training based on one of the other schemes available
Co-produce resources based on the hackathon at the Rencontres, create and lead educational walks, propose participative workcamps, lead a time of distributed production at the Fablab, organise a screening-debate at the Ciné-atelier, etc.
Extract from the programme
Hackathon: Creation of resources linked to the benchmarks for sustainable development education, based on the archives of environmental education associations.
Participatory construction site: building a forest sofa
Educational walks: Sociological walks at secondary school
6 – Research day: Specialists in a particular field come together for a day to present their work and exchange views.
the Themes
The programme will be formalised around the programmatic axes and thematic routes detailed below.
As the programme is open to participation, new itineraries will be added as proposals are received. In particular, participants are invited to link their proposals to water, the guest element of honour at the Rencontres..
Theme 1: School outdoors
Fundamentals outdoors
Learning on the move
The outdoor classroom in secondary schools
The outdoor classroom for education for sustainable development and the ecological transition
Inclusion outdoors
The influences of the outdoor classroom (popular education, new education, nature-based education, scientific investigation, etc.)
Theme 2: The place of children in the city
Social diversity at school outdoors
Learning outdoors in an urban environment (in a garden, playground, park, square, etc.)
Itinerary: Artistic and cultural practices outside school grounds
Risk and care outdoors
Children outside the home (IME, ITEP, streets, shanty towns, educational centres, prisons, hospitals)
Early childhood, coeducation and parenting outside the home
Theme 3: Class outside and crises
Renovating schools
Resilience in the face of natural hazards
Relationships with living things
One health
Sustainable mobility
Theme 4: Local classrooms outside dynamics
Mobilising a community and supporting an outdoor classroom dynamic
Taking part in an educational area
Discovery classes
Training staff to go outdoors (teachers, educational teams, extra-curricular activity leaders)
Regulations and funding