The terms “experiential learning”, “outdoor education” and “sustainable education” have become increasingly popular in mainstream schooling of late. Recently too, the “green revolution” has been met with an increased interest in how to instill both passion and an understanding of environmental issues through education – yet alternative educators and educators of ‘at-risk’ youth have been successfully using experiential learning for decades.
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What do you do when you get old? Play golf and lie in the sun? For about 100 Suzuki Elders, the answer has been to spend their later years involved with environmental issues.
Youngsters re-enact some of life’s essential dramas in a game that builds both knowledge and empathy
Bring nature back to elementary aged children by way of a Forest School
Documenting and learning in the environment invites us to reflect on stewardship and global citizenship with our students
The four Cs of intentional community:
conservation land trusts, co-housing,
co-ops & communes
Old and new traditions converge at Tawse Winery’s certified biodynamic vineyard.
ERNEST C. WONG recalls a youth that never focused on the outdoors. That changed at the age of 15 when Wong, the son of Chinese immigrants growing up in a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Chicago in the late 1960s, became a volunteer with the Student Conservation Association (SCA)...
If first-time parenthood sounds too easy, why not make a whole bunch of additional, fundamental lifestyle changes and become EcoParents instead? Brave or stupid – maybe a bit of both – that’s how we did it around here.