Field classes - a form of education for healthier and better quality future of adolescents

Modern lifestyle is more and more stressful and faster. This is the fact everybody is aware of. It also means that adolescents' attitude towards recreation and regular physical exercises necessary for a healthy and high-quality development is more and more passive. With a view of making the students, as a group with which this problem is obvious, aware of this fact, it is necessary to offer some really interesting activities to them. Therefore, there are various reason why the idea of field classes should be implemented. Firstly, it does not only raise the adolescents' awareness of the importance or every day recreation (rock-climbing, cycling) but it also uses the workshop technique with the aim of introducing the students-participants into unusual life conditions and survival skills in extreme life situations (space orientation, first aid, wilderness survival). Furthermore, such a form of field classes also offers the students-participants the possibility to learn about the natural and cultural beauties and sights of our country (in this particular example, the region of Ogulin). Finally, the advantage of such field classes is the possibility that the students get to know each other better, improve the communication and cooperation among students, teachers, project manager, professional rescue teams and members of The Croatian Mountain Rescue Service who are also involved in the project. All the above mentioned facts lead us to the conclusion that field classes have the potential of being an interesting form of education for the students incorporating the aspect of health, culture and social interaction. It uses communication, free time activities and pleasant atmosphere to teach students how to significantly improve the quality of their health in the future.