Course Description

Practical-pedagogical perspectives:

• Sunday cross-country skiing trip with campfire and sausages, ski games etc
• Winter outdoor activities in the forest; various types of how to overnight outdoors, activities on the ski slopes
• Hunting and fishing in the wintertime
• Winter outdoor activities in the high mountains
• Traditional activities
• Pedagogical uses of the winter mountains – why and how
• Practical skills – orientation, choice of route, shelter and camp
• Experiencing nature

Theory seminar

• Winter outdoor life in Norway: the traditional, the typical and modern trends
• Participation and change in Norwegian outdoor life: extent, pattern and social differences, consequences of social processes
• Construction of meaning: identity, gender and culture
• Use of the outdoors in pedagogical and political contexts
• Guiding in the outdoors
• The management of outdoor life and nature (planning and organising, right of access, Government White Papers, official perspectives and purposes of outdoor life)

Assessment Methods

Individual written 5-day home examination.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean