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The educational offer of the preschools involved in the project was been developing, taking into consideration, the importance of both internal and external learning environments. However, in their experience the organization of the internal learning environment was given much more attention than the external/outdoor) one. The use of indoor contexts was indeed predominant. The preschools needed to increase the use of the external learning environment and therefore increase the pedagogical continuity between indoor and outdoor spaces.

reschool teachers can improve their skills through comparing and learning about new innovative materials, strategies and pedagogical games that could be used to foster continuity between indoor and outdoors.
It’s important to strengthen the learning attitude of pedagogues. To work more with the learning process and take advantage of the capacity of every child´s ability to learn. We need to learn more about education systems and models from other countries and to learn more about innovative materials and attitude of pedagogues.

These questions were fundamental to our project:
– How do we create an interesting outdoor environment around our preschools that is as permissive and challenging as the indoor
environment?
– How do we organize outdoor environment so that we can meet all of a child’s interests and stimulate their minds in the same way
as we do indoors?
– What are the skills and knowledge the teachers need to acquire/strengthen in order to foster pedagogical continuity between indoor and outdoor learning contexts?
– How can we strengthen parents’ interest in the benefits of outdoor education and increase cooperation in our activities?
Through discussions on these issues along with teams from other preschools in Europe, we will gain inspiration and knowledge to develop the pedagogical work.