Abstract:

This article describes ongoing research with 152 adolescents from six reform schools and detention homes aged 12-16 years with a risky behavioural disorder (drugs, crime, aggression). The aim is to find out whether young people's understanding of moral values will increase, and social adaptation improves through regular workshops in the forest. On the examples of forest fauna and flora (wolves, wild boars, deers, fungi, bees, ants) the principles of mutual coexistence, cooperation, care for others, adaptation and collaborative animal and plant models were demonstrated to the teenagers using forest pedagogy methods. The theoretical framework is based on the nature ideas exchange. Analogy method and Focus interview with off-topic replicas methodologically approach this research.