Elevers erfarenheter och upplevelser av friluftliv : En kvalitativ studie med killar i årskurs 7

Sammanfattning: The purpose of the study is to find out what experience of outdoor activities, known as friluftsliv  in Sweden, pupils have and shed light on the perceptions they have about outdoor living. The study is based on focus group interviews with a total of ten guys in the seventh grade in primary school. The interviews were filmed, transcribed and analyzed by the writer. The starting point of this study is that friluftsliv is a culturally created phenomenon and the theoretical perspective is based on Bourdieu's famous concept: Capital, field, habitus and taste. All the students had positive experiences of being in the outdoors. Some used outdoor activities as a method for training. Many of the students experienced outdoor living and the experience of being in the nature as an end in itself. The socio-economic background maybe played some role in their taste and experience of some outdoor activities. Some students felt that outdoor activities can be a way to learn things about nature and that it was important to pass on that knowledge to their children. Students' experiences in outdoor activities at school consisted mostly of orienteering and a lack of other outdoor activities emerged. It´s important as a teacher to start from the pupils' previous experience to create an enjoyable learning. According to the author, there are good opportunities for these students to embrace the teaching of friluftliv based on experiential learning out in the wild.