The purpose of the study is to find out what experience of outdoor activities, known as friluftsliv  in Sweden, pupils have and shed light on the perceptions they have about outdoor living. The study is based on focus group interviews with a total of ten guys in the seventh grade in primary school. The interviews were filmed, transcribed and analyzed by the writer. The starting point of this study is that friluftsliv is a culturally created phenomenon and the theoretical perspective is based on Bourdieu's famous concept: Capital, field, habitus and taste. All the students had positive experiences of being in the outdoors. Some used outdoor activities as a method for training. Many of the students experienced outdoor living and the experience of being in the nature as an end in itself. The socio-economic background maybe played some role in their taste and experience of some outdoor activities. Some students felt that outdoor activities can be a way to learn things about nature and that it was important to pass on that knowledge to their children. Students' experiences in outdoor activities at school consisted mostly of orienteering and a lack of other outdoor activities emerged. It´s important as a teacher to start from the pupils' previous experience to create an enjoyable learning. According to the author, there are good opportunities for these students to embrace the teaching of friluftliv based on experiential learning out in the wild. / Syftet med studien var att ta reda på vad elever i grundskolans äldre årskurser har för erfarenheter och hur deras upplevelser inom ämnet friluftsliv ser ut. Med utgångspunkt i frågeställningen så gjordes två fokusgruppintervjuer med totalt tio pojkar i årkurs 7. Intervjuerna filmades, transkriberades och innehållsanalyserades av uppsatsens författare. Utgångspunkten i arbetet är att friluftsliv är en kulturellt skapad företeelse och det teoretiska perspektivet bygger på Bourdieus nyckelbegrepp: Kapital, fält, habitus och smak. Eleverna hade positiva upplevelser och erfarenheter av att var ute i naturen.Några använde sig av friluftsaktiviter som en metod för träning. De flesta eleverna såg även naturupplevelsen som härlig och ett mål i sig.Elevernas kulturella och socioekonomiska bakgrund spelade möjligtvis en viss roll för deras smak och erfarenhet av vissa friluftsaktiviteter.Några elever ansåg att friluftsliv kan vara ett sätt att lära sig saker om naturen och att det var viktigt att föra vidare den kunskapen till sina barn.Elevernas erfarenheter av friluftsliv i skolan bestod mest av orientering och en saknad av andra friluftsaktiviteter framkom. Som lärare är det viktigt att utgå från elevernas tidigare erfarenheter för att kunna skapa ett lustfyllt lärande. Dessa elever hade enligt författaren goda förutsättningar att ta till sig undervisning i friluftliv som grundar sig i ett mer upplevelsebaserat lärande i naturen.

A dissertation of limited scope submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Post-Graduate Diploma in Recreation and Tourism, in the Department of Recreation and Tourism at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2008. / The study on Levels of Participation in Outdoor Recreation at Malolotja Game Reserve was conducted against the background that, the Game Reserve has lot of outdoor recreation facilities. Everyone must use these facilities, so that the participation level in outdoor recreation is increased. The study was aimed at finding out the levels of participation in outdoor recreation at Malolotja Game Reserve. This aim was narrowed down to the following objectives: • To establish the levels of understanding the respondents have about the meaning of outdoor recreation activities. • To ascertain the level of participation of various stakeholders in activities provided by Malolotja Game Reserve. • To ascertain if the management of the Game Reserve is regarded as efficient by the respondents. • To find out the nature and types of recreation facilities offered at Malolotja Game Reserve. • To reveal who the respondents think is responsible for financing the Malolotja Game Reserve. • To find out how local community perceive safety and security in Malolotja Game Reserve. Data was collected through the use of sets of questionnaires, which had both * opened-ended and closed ended questions. Data was collected, it was analysed through the use of computer programme, statistical Package for Social Sciences. This programme was used to formulate frequency tables. There were various findings that the researcher obtained from respondents which were tourists, local community, authority and Swaziland National Trust Commission. It was discovered that all the tourists' respondents had a good understanding of outdoor recreation whereas local community had poor understanding of the meaning of outdoor recreation. The participation level was low in local community and moderate for tourists. Participation level was elevated in international tourists and in local community it was declining. Nature and types of facilities the study area had were satisfactory to all the respondents. Management of the facilities were regarded as inefficient and the Game Reserve gets most income from its profit and Government of Swaziland. To address the concerns of the decreasing level of participation, various recommendations were suggested. These include creation of projects to facilitate the participation level in outdoor recreation, provision of outdoor recreation facilities and activities, marketing and promotion of Malolotja Game Reserve, involving the government in development of outdoor recreation, provision of access to finance, development of information centres and lastly improve safety and security. If all this is considered the participation level in outdoor recreation could increase.

Orientador: Carmen Lúcia Soares / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T20:45:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dias_DouglasdaCunha_D.pdf: 21288214 bytes, checksum: 239da55478f9c4e81d82024d330ca34f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A tese discute a noção educação do corpo a partir dos usos d'água em Belém do Pará, adotando o surto de cólera ocorrido em 1855 e o processo de implantação dos esportes náuticos ao longo da década de 1920 como balizadores. As fontes utilizadas foram jornais e revistas do período evocado, bem como álbuns e relatórios dos poderes públicos e o estatuto do Club do Remo. A questão geradora foi: como se deu a educação do corpo por meio dos usos d¿água em Belém do Pará entre 1855 e a década de 1920? Objetivei compreender a articulação entre um ideário composto por saberes de ordem médico-higienista, bem como de caráter legislativo, articulados ao processo de urbanização e modernização de Belém, entendendo-os como dispositivos pedagógicos que levaram ao forjar de um sentido novo e positivo à vida ao ar livre e à natureza, sentido esse fundamental à ideia de progresso e modernidade que ali se instalava. Entre as conclusões estão: 1) a noção educação do corpo amalgamada aos usos d¿água e à invenção de um sentido positivo à vida ao ar livre, integrou o processo de modernização vivido por Belém; 2) identifiquei a passagem de um estado de medo, penúria e mortandade, para um estado de regozijo, celebração, saúde e espetáculo, tendo a água, a natureza, a cidade, o corpo e o esporte náutico como anima e fulcro;3) as regatas comemorativas e a esportivização das práticas aquáticas contribuíram para os novos sentidos atribuídos à orla belenense, sendo fundamentais ao projeto de europeização e modernização de Belém idealizado por Antonio Lemos; 4) esportivizar das práticas aquáticas partiu do domínio, implantação e aceite de métodos de treinamento físico e técnico voltados aos jovens atletas; 5) os "sportmen" refletiam e ampliavam valores centrais para o capitalismo que avançava sobre Belém; 6) um moderno e positivo sentido de vida ao livre, pensada a partir das águas, foi alavancado tanto quanto alavancou o ideal de urbanidade expresso pelo progresso, pela ciência e pelo capitalismo / Abstract: The thesis discusses the idea of body education as a result of water use in Belem do Para, adopting the 1855 cholera outbreak and the process of nautical sports implementation of the 1920¿s decade as benchmarks. The information sources utilized on the study were the magazines from that period, government reports and also the Club do Remo regulation code. The root question was: How did the body education through water use in Belém do Pará happened between 1855 and the 1920¿s decade? I have targeted to understand the articulation between a scenario composed by medic-hygienic knowledge and with legislative character, articulated to the urbanization process and modernization of Belem, understanding them as pedagogic dispositive which end up forging a new and positive direction towards outdoor life and environment; being it fundamental to the idea of progress and modernity that was being established on the period. Between the conclusions, there are: 1) the notion of body education amalgamated to the use of water and therefore to the invention of a positive outdoor life, has integrated the process of modernization experienced by Belem; 2) I have identified a transition from a state of fear, shortage and mortality to a state of joy, celebration, health and spectacle, having the water, environment, the city, the body and the nautical sport as the core and the animation; 3) the celebration races and the spread of the aquatic sportive practices have contributed to the new meanings related to the waterfronts of Belem, being critical for the projects of modernization and "European sophistication" of Belem idealized by Antonio Lemos; 4) Turning the aquatic practices in sports came from the acceptance of the technical and physical training methods focusing the young athletes; 5) the sportsmen reflected and amplified the core capitalist values that were advancing towards Belem; 6)a modern and positive sense of outdoor life, idealized from the exposure to the waters, was leveraged as high as it has leveraged the urbanity ideal expressed by progress, science and capitalism / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutor em Educação