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