Schools’forest a step of mind
Kids have been educated in the natural world for millennia. At that time man was emancipating himself from nature by developing a free consciousness as well as a highly technical civilization.
“ It is only been in the last 200 years that we have stuck them in airless classrooms with no natural stimulus.” Briony Penn – Naturalist, Environmentalist, Author, Teacher, and Geographer
Our generation is the first to grow up with little or no direct experience of nature. The first humanity raise "out of the ground" ! But like these discusting tomatoes growing out of the soil….maybe we miss something?
It is the time to rediscover one's inner connection with nature in a new way, based on a modern consciousness. With Forestschool welcome back to the Wild, to the real taste of life!
The Forest School pedagogy typically incorporates philosophies commonly used in Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio-Emilia methods. Where Nature served as the primary foundation on which inquiry-based teaching styles were based.
The traditional ForestSchool model are including the following primary principles: Outdoors in all weather; Child-led flow learning; Guided risk taking; Place-based curriculum; Environmental stewardship; Small class sizes.
Founded in 1837 by Friedrich Fröbel, implementing a holistic academic model, focusing on student’s individual learning needs and emotional development. It is by World War I. approached, that children were taken indoors to provided a more rigorous curriculum. Focusing on language and math with greater undertones for overall structure and obedience facing of great uncertainty.
Today the Forestschool is a complete education of the individual in nature and by nature challenging physical benefits, social skills, and emotional growth.
By the experience of the natural elements, you will cultivate your physical; intellectual; social-emotional abilities even spiritual conscience.
Following an empirical approach, the forest school is an opportunity to deepen from multiple perspectives the relationship between the microcosm (the human being) and the macrocosm (the universe), while recalling the central axis of human dignity: individual freedom.
Discovering how you're part of a Whole! Everything is connected, you enter in the natural process of interacting first with yourself then with all around you! ForestSchools are all-weather outdoor education programs that use nature immersion to develop cognitive, physical, and social-emotional skills.
They have been gradually established in Europe since the beginning of the 20th century.