The outdoor school

Abstract

Article first published in 1929 in the journal Revista de Pedagogía by Rosa Sensat, principal of the female section of the Escuela Bosque founded in 1914 in Barcelona. The text shows Sensat’s reflection about her experience in the Escuela Bosque. The author highlights the school placement, in the natural environment, as a specific characteristic, but she also states that the educational activity carried out in a school, regardless of the environment, must be guided and applied. She concludes the importance of the natural environment for promoting the spirit of observation and study, and she claims for the need of understanding the classroom as a place for analysing and systematizing the information collected in the natural environment. She closes the reflection advocating for spiritual education, respect for students’ learning needs and their happiness. Teresa Rabazas Romero and Carlos Sanz Simón, researchers at the Museum of History of Education “Manuel Bartolomé Cossío” at the Complutense University of Madrid, have added to this reedition a brief contextualization.