Making Sense of Place

School-Farm Cooperation in Norway

Abstract

This paper describes the Norwegian “Living School” national project and its related university extension course, “The Farm as a Pedagogical Resource.” Since the national initiative began in the late 1990s, more than 250 separate local projects have been developed through the course. Here we focus on one such project in the community of Aurland. It illustrates the basic principal of “rooting” students in life processes and in the places in which they live through participation in practical, meaningful work outdoors.