Esperienze di scuola dell’infanzia in natura e ricadute sulle dimensioni di sviluppo della consapevolezza ambientale

Global developments and sustainability is at the centre of European recommendations on Key Competences (2018) in terms of Citizenship competences and in the National Guidelines for the Curriculum (2018). Educational studies recognize the benefits for children’s awareness in terms of development of emotional bonds, knowledge about the environment and respectful actions that are traceable to a long lasting, global and frequent experience of the natural environment. This work compares the opinions collected through structured interviews administered individually to two section groups of 5 years children from two different preschools - belonging to two preschools of the same territory and of the same manager body - who during the 3 years of school attended the same natural environment with intensity and different frequency. The aim is to recognize differences in the relationship with the environment itself that children refer. The content analysis of the responses highlights elements of interest such the bond with this environment, the knowledge gained, the recognition of pleasant or intuitive activities for children also considered peculiar to that context, as well as actions of care for the environment itself.