Outdoor Education in adolescence: between new and ancient reasons

Abstract

The paper focuses on the relationship between Outdoor Education and adolescence in order to highlight the educational potential of this specific approach in relation to the development tasks
of the age in which “going out” represents the symbolic figure of the personal and social identity construction. Starting from Rousseau and Montessori’s perspective, rethinking adolescents’
education according to the outdoor method is today particularly congenial in school and extraschool contexts, with particular regard to their social and civic education.