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This is a presentation of teachers’ perspective on Education Outside the Classroom (EOtC) in Greenlandic Elementary school. I have worked collaborative with three different schools in South, West, and North Greenland to develop, test and evaluate educational designs in EOtC. The study was conducted… This is a presentation of teachers’ perspective on Education Outside the Classroom (EOtC) in Greenlandic Elementary school. I have worked collaborative with three different schools in South, West, and North Greenland to develop, test and evaluate educational designs in EOtC. The study was conducted Participatory Action Research, and the school were visited and revisited between two and four times, were I collaborated with the same teachers. After the interventions, I interviewed six of the teachers that participated. This is the presentation of preliminary findings from the interviews, all with indigenous Greenlandic teachers, and my preliminary analysis of working Participatory Action Research -based developing educational design in EOtC. The overall preliminary conclusion is that the teachers like using EOtC pedagogy in their teaching, and they see potential in that way of teaching when it comes to learning outcome, motivation and wellbeing among students. They all think it suits very well with the Greenlandic culture to learn outside and use nature and local places in teaching. They also see it as a way to practice a more culturally responsive teaching. They also emphasize that EOtC needs more planning time, especially when that kind of educational design are new to them. They think it would be beneficial, if teaching materials in EOtC in Greenlandic made for the Greenlandic context are developed. While most of the teachers liked the Participatory Action Research approach to develop EOtC, one asked in the interview for at more Design Based Research way of working, where she could have tested EOtC designs, I should have planned. Læs mere