Socially sustainable framework for imparting natural knowledge to preschool children as part of public care in the forest and meadow (SNatur)
Abstract
Nature kindergartens are more common in Austria than farm kindergartens. At the same time, the need for nature education is constantly increasing, due to the deprivation of nature, increasing digitization and the pandemic pressure, to which children are exposed not only in the public sector but also in families. According to the current insurance status, pre-school children cannot participate in public care several times a day, weekly or monthly before the compulsory kindergarten year, with statutory accident insurance (not taken into account according to ASVG (General Social Security Act)), in regular natural knowledge teaching or pedagogy in the natural environment, which includes the forest and meadows, participate. There is therefore a need to develop a minimum infrastructure and risk analysis for the natural environment that corresponds to a publicly recognized infrastructure standard, such as in the regular kindergarten, which allows preschool children under the age of 5 to attend nature kindergarten for several days to several weeks a year as part of public care with accident insurance.
Project staff
Elisabeth Quendler
Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing.Dr. Elisabeth Quendler MSc.
elisabeth.quendler@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93116
BOKU Project Leader
01.06.2023 - 31.01.2025
Alina Branco
Alina Branco B.Sc.
alina.branco@students.boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.06.2023 - 31.01.2025