| Author | : Wendy Banning |
| Publisher | : Redleaf Press |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2010-11-23 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1605540242 |
Enhance children's early learning and help them reconnect with the natural world with these high-quality outdoor learning experiences.
| Author | : Peter Dargatz |
| Publisher | : Redleaf Press |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2021-12-14 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1605547514 |
Teaching Off Trail describes the transformation of Peter Dargatz, a national board-certified teacher, and public school coordinator, from an anxious assessor to a fair and fun facilitator of learning. It shares his personal professional journey detailing his evolution as an educator while simultaneously offering strategies for readers to implement Peter's unique teaching philosophy to increase opportunities for play, creative expression, and personalization in both the indoor and outdoor classroom. In his own classroom, Peter brought learning outside by creating a nature kindergarten program that emphasizes community partnerships, service learning, and meaningful and memorable experiences in the outdoors. Teaching Off Trail aims to inspire educators, administrators, and parents across all levels to turn their outrage for today’s educational system into outreach that promotes passionate and purposeful problem-solving. He incorporates techniques often seen in private educational settings like Reggio and Montessori—student-centered, self-directed experiential approaches to learning) and shows how they work within a public school system.
| Author | : Nancy Striniste |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 644 |
| Release | : 2019-04-02 |
| Genre | : House & Home |
| ISBN | : 1604698969 |
“A magnificent resource for transforming backyards into stimulating environments which enhance children’s creativity, learning, and fun.” —Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N Access to technology has created a generation of children who are more plugged in than ever before—often with negative consequences. But there is a solution. Unrestricted outdoor play helps reduce stress, improve health, and enhance creativity, learning, and attention span. In Nature Play at Home, Nancy Striniste gives you the tools you need to make outdoor adventures possible in your own backyard. With hundreds of inspiring ideas and illustrated, step-by-step projects, this hardworking book details how to create playspaces that use natural materials—like logs, boulders, sand, water, and plants of all kinds. Projects include hillside slides, seating circles, sand pits, and more.
| Author | : Patty Born Selly |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781605545028 |
Connect nature play, outdoor experiences, and STEM learning with activities, real-life examples, and educator resources
| Author | : Rachel A. Larimore |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 94 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781879931305 |
Nature-based preschools are powerful programs that fuse early childhood and environmental education to develop a child's lifelong connection with the natural world. With the number of this unique, cutting-edge program growing throughout the country, many nature centers are asking, "Is a nature-based preschool right for us?" Establishing a Nature-Based Preschool helps answer that question, and provides a how-to guide to move from concept to implementation.
| Author | : Peter Becker |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2018-06-12 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1351692569 |
The Changing World of Outdoor Learning in Europe sets out to provide a comprehensive analysis of the economical and political changes that have occurred in European outdoor culture in the preceding two decades, from a diverse range of perspectives including institutional, theoretical, national and educational views. The book looks at how outdoor education has been transformed into an increasingly global field where established and influenced practices have been introduced into modernising and democratising nations. With contributions from the members of the board of the European Institute of Outdoor Adventure Eduation and Experiential Learning and representatives of the networks that stand behind it, this unique book provides thorough factual analyses and examinations of outdoor learning that have never been presented before. The book contains contributions from across Europe, with authors from the UK, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia, Poland, Norway and the Czech Republic. Chapters within the volume by non - European authors provide another perspective on the European story in a wider context. As a whole, the book will stimulate the ongoing debate about the nature, function and organisation of outdoor education around the globe. The Changing World of Outdoor Learning in Europe will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of outdoor education, leadership and recreation; and outdoor, sport, environmental and leisure studies. It should also be essential reading for those involved in outdoor organisations in Europe and worldwide.
| Author | : Lily Yeh |
| Publisher | : New Village Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2011-05-03 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0981559379 |
Engaging students in artmaking, Lily Yeh transforms a derelict Beijing factory into a vibrant beautiful school for migrant workers' children.
| Author | : Liv Torunn Grindheim |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2021-07-20 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 3030725952 |
This Open Access book examines children’s participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales. Underpinned by cultural-historical theory, the analysis reveals how outdoors and nature form unique conditions for children's play, formal and informal learning and cultural formation. The analysis also surfaces how inequalities exist in societies and communities, which often limit and constrain families' and children's access to and participation in outdoor spaces and nature. The findings highlight how institutional practices are shaped by pedagogical content, teachers' training, institutional regulations and societal perceptions of nature, children and suitable, sustainable education for young children. Due to crises, such as climate change and the recent pandemic, specific focus on the outdoors and nature in cultural formation is timely for the cultural-historical theoretical tradition. In doing so, the book provides empirical and theoretical support for policy makers, researchers, educators and families to enhance, increase and sustain outdoor and nature education.
