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.