Big Thinkers: Jon Young on Lessons from NatureThe cofounder of the Wilderness Awareness School, an innovator in combining native mentoring techniques with the tools of modern field ecology, offers some antidotes to nature-deficit disorder. More to this story.
The cofounder of the Wilderness Awareness School, an innovator in combining native mentoring techniques with the tools of modern field ecology, offers some antidotes to nature-deficit disorder. More to this story.
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Release Date: 5/15/2006
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Excellent interview, Jon
Excellent interview, Jon Young creates a special atmosphere when talking. I live in Chile and we have similar responses from kids when working in nature. Unfortunately few teachers understand the beauty of learning in the outdoors.
Nature Deficit Disorder
Thank-you Jon Young for being there!
As part of my doctoral research, I reflected on how so much of my social, emotional and intellectual well-being is dependent on being outside every day, and drawing from the energy of nature.
If that is true for teachers, it certainly is for students!