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Green Inclusion, or the Relationship Between Man and Nature, Outdoor Education and a Forest Fairy Tale

Author(s): Joanna Godawa
Subject(s): Preschool education, School education, Human Ecology, Environmental interactions, Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: outdoor education; therapeutic forest stories; balanced development; nature-deficit disorder
Summary/Abstract: The book investigates contemporary human relationships with nature, and in doing so emphasizes the necessity of re-establishing contact with nature for personal growth. The author discusses a wide range of issues including balanced development in relation to ecology, and the importance of a proactively adventurous attitude towards the outdoors. Godawa suggests a three-phase pattern of returning to nature, reflecting the three stages of rites of passage described by the anthropologist Arnold von Gennep. She also writes her own therapeutic forest stories, intended to prepare children to initiate their creative relationship with nature. She strongly believes that outdoor education can be the most efficient way to restore the loss of contact with nature in modern life.

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