Education outside the classroom and pupils’ social relations? A one-year quasi-experiment

Mads Bølling; Gertrud Ursula Pfister; Erik Mygind; Glen Nielsen

doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2019.02.014

Education outside the classroom and pupils’ social relations? A one-year quasi-experiment

Mads Bølling^*, Gertrud Ursula Pfister, Erik Mygind, Glen Nielsen

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Abstract

This study is the first to investigate education outside the classroom (EOtC) and pupils’ social relations in a large-sample experimental design. Social Cognitive Mapping was used to collect data on informal peer affiliation groups among pupils, aged 9–13 years, at the start and end of the school year. 332 pupils from 16 classes that were regularly exposed to EOtC, were compared with 158 pupils from 8 comparable classes that were not. Regular exposure to EOtC was positively associated to a gain in new peer affiliations, but not to increases in the total number of relations. In conclusion, regular exposure to EOtC is related to minor positive changes in pupils’ informal peer affiliations in their class networks.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Educational Research
Volume	94
Pages (from-to)	29-41
Number of pages	13
ISSN	0883-0355
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2019.02.014
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

Friendship
Inclusion
Outdoor learning
Social network analysis
Social relations
Udeskole

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