Studiehåndbok 2016-2017
   
   
  
European Master in Transcultural European Outdoor Studies  
Program of study
European Master in Transcultural European Outdoor Studies
Programme coordinator
Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt
Introduction

The two-year degree programme of a Master in Transcultural European Outdoor Studies (TEOS) offered by the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany, coordinator), the University of Cumbria (England) and the Norges Idrettshogskole in Oslo (Norway) is a response to the fact that outdoor practice and the pedagogy connected with it has gained tremendous significance in all industrial countries in recent years. The aim of the course is to impart a qualifications profile that, on the one hand, embraces the accumulated knowledge of the three central traditions of the philosophy of outdoor pedagogics - the Norwegian Friluftsliv, the English Outdoor Education and the German Erlebnispädagogik, and that, on the other hand, leads to the development of a transcultural sensitivity which allows students to discern the cultural transitions and open borders between the three national concepts that have been there from the beginning and have been retained until today.

Learning outcome
  • Teaching of knowledge of the individual national disciplines, discourses, traditions and practices of the subject.
  • Theoretical and practical study of transitions, thresholds, borders and connection options between concepts and traditions of outdoor pedagogies typical for the individual countries: Outdoor Education in England, Friluftsliv in Norway and Erlebnispädagogik in Germany.
  • Promotion of job-relevant attitudes of transcultural rationality, which not only demand theoretical reflexion and subject-related practical processing but which are also based on the informal learning taking place in the half-year stay in each of the countries of the three participating European universities
     
Programme structure
Course codeCourse titleECTSTeaching semesterAcademic responsible
MA431Policy Making and Practical Context10 ECTSSpringKirsti Pedersen Gurholt
MA432Specialization10 ECTSSpringKirsti Pedersen Gurholt
MAS426Landscape and outdoor practices10 ECTSSpringKirsti Pedersen Gurholt
MAS427Master thesis (TEOS)30 ECTSKirsti Pedersen Gurholdt
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