MODELING GROUP RAPPORTS IN OUTDOOR EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

Abstract

Within the educational system, the outdoor activities are found in a broader spectrum introducing other parameters, indicators and referential frameworks in appreciating the formative act, thus constituting the non-institutionalized way of shaping education. The context of this type of study and investigation is the social one expressing the degree of socializing. The scientific analysis of certain elements of dynamic structures undergone by the group doing the outdoor activities has ensured the accomplishment of this purpose which has been done by successfully practicing the sociometrical method. One has used the sociometrical test that allows the determination of the way in which relationships manifest themselves inside the group of research implicitly influencing the degree of cohesion of the group and its organization. The objective of the research is to evaluate the development of the social climate by determining the existent inter personal relationships – affective and sympathetic – between students undergoing “Outdoor Education” activities.