The Centre for School and Outdoor Education (CŠOD) runs distinctly environmental programmes where students have direct experiences in nature. Experiences in nature have a strong influence on the development of environmental attitudes, values, and connectedness to nature. The purpose of this study is to determine how CŠOD's week-long programmes influence students' attitudes toward the environment, their connectedness to nature, their environmental values and attitudes, and their pro-environmental behaviours, and to identify correlations among the measured variables. We also want to find out what the expectations and impressions of participants in CŠOD programmes are. Data were collected through anonymous written questionnaires for students and group interviews with accompanying teachers. For all measured dimensions of students' attitudes toward the environment, no statistically significant differences before and after implementation of the CŠOD programmes are found out. We found out that students are more likely to engage in individual pro-environmental behaviours that do not depend on others. Students pay the most attention to the biospheric dimension, which refers to the well-being of all living things. We found moderate to high levels of connectedness to nature, with the highest scores for the sense of oneness with nature. Even before the implementation of the CŠOD programme, students showed greater commitment to the preservation of nature than to the utilisation of nature. The results also show that there are moderate and positive correlations between environmental values and attitudes. The egoistic dimension of environmental values and attitudes emphasising the use of nature are negatively correlated with the biospheric and altruistic dimensions and pro-environmental behaviours. Gender comparisons show that female students exhibit more pro-environmental behaviours, are more committed to nature preservation, and have more positive environmental attitudes and values than male students. We also found out that as students get older, they become less connected to nature and exhibit more negative attitudes and behaviours. Students' greatest expectation before the CŠOD programme was to learn about nature. However, according to their impressions after the programmes, sports activities in nature were mentioned most often. Accompanying teachers emphasised the importance of students socialising and getting to know each other during the programmes. This is also reflected in the open responses of the students, who emphasised the aspect of being together and getting to know each other much more in their impressions than in their expectations. The survey found out that overall, students acquire a wide range of skills in the CŠOD programme, but are not as associated with the environmental aspect of the programmes, which is emphasised in the Concept of the Outdoor Education and CŠOD.
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