Recommendations and resources to guide people towards Free-Range Education and its philosophies.
Books I Live By:
Coyote’s Guide to Connecting with Nature-Jon Young, Ellen Hass, Evan Mcgown
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder-Richard Louv
Education and the Significance of Life-Krishnamurti
Tom Brown’s Guide to Nature and Survival for Children-Tom Brown, Jr.
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee-Wendy Mogel
Nurture Shock-Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman
The Nature of Free-Range Education.
The ‘Free-Range’ theory has a positive focused approach to learning. This approach allows the receiver confidence and agency. They have the space to follow their own interest, on a pace without restraint.
Nature Educators are meant to set the standard in their teaching through tapping into various sources the participant can engage in. These also include social skills such as self-management, self-awareness, social awareness, and relationship management. Positive intent is an assumed practice for skill-building and overall success with emotional intelligent competencies.
By putting the ‘Quest’ back into questioning, and opportunities for varied sources to answering their interests, curiosity is fostered and supported.
In solo and collaborative situations, offerings of realistic life preparedness are played out by engaging with hard tasks, risk-taking, and permission to fail (and try again).
Teaching the bowdrill
Learning fire
Knife skills
Shelter building
Awareness play