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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Get out!

Swedish science and outdoor education expert Professor Anders Szczepanski discusses the benefits of being outside with Annette Rawstrone

Professor Anders Szczepanski is founder and director of the National Centre for Outdoor Environmental Education (NCU) at Linköping University in Sweden. He is also a lecturer, researcher and author, and for the past 30 years has worked with pre-schools and schools, delivering training in science and outdoor education. His work has taken him around the world, including Europe, America and Asia.

NCU aims to increase the awareness and understanding of outdoor environments as an important part of, and a foundation for, learning. Within Sweden, it functions as a National Network for Outdoor Environmental Education, but it is also working to increase the Scandinavian and international exchange of teachers and students.

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