From outdoor education to outdoor schools: a new way of teaching

The contribution examines the most advanced national and international literature linked to the approaches underlying the models of Outdoor Education and Outdoor Schools, launching an examination of those studies that connect to the concrete benefits that such approaches would bring to the learning of students in contexts. schools and paying attention to those dimensions of teaching which are central to guaranteeing quality training and which should be integrated within a sustainable and integrated didactic action space. We retrace the first important experiences of pedagogues of the early twentieth century who, in the relationship between culture and nature, traced the way for a "green pedagogy" and paths of "green schools" up to the of "green schools" up to the most recent experiences, which today are the expression of an intense debate aimed at guaranteeing a school sustainable.