The Challenge of Learning in Open Classrooms: An Experiential and Contextual Learning Proposal

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Francisco José Polop

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The educational proposal of Open Classrooms has been didactically designed and explored as a result of the concern for promoting a model of conservation and education about the value of the natural and cultural heritage offered by the countryside. Its geography and biodiversity as natural and cultural landscape in the Chaco Serrano Eco-region have challenged us to construct new educational scenarios, experiential paths. From an approach that includes the affective dimension as well as thematic situational interest, such scenarios articulate bio-ecological and cultural notions of our regional context. We assume that the possibility of actually experiencing these tours with a variety of educational guides offers a full learning opportunity for diverse groups of participants and constitutes an innovative proposal. In this sense, we have identified and documented the way in which these paths enable us to establish links with other models of field work, games and simulations, drawings and photographs, which - as they are crossed by sensations, sounds and folk tales - are plotting the complex meaning of biodiversity, culture, art, the environment and conservation.

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The Challenge of Learning in Open Classrooms: An Experiential and Contextual Learning Proposal. (2018). Journal of Biology Education, 21(1), 62-73. https://doi.org/10.59524/2344-9225.v21.n1.22546
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The Challenge of Learning in Open Classrooms: An Experiential and Contextual Learning Proposal. (2018). Journal of Biology Education, 21(1), 62-73. https://doi.org/10.59524/2344-9225.v21.n1.22546