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Educate in nature

Psychomotor instruments for outdoor education

Product: Book

ISBN: 978-88-590-1490-4

Publication date: 01/01/2018


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Based on the author’s personal experience and other international experiences, this book proposes types of psychomotor therapy for activities outdoors in direct contact with nature.

This is a new topic, which fits well within the current framework of increasing interest in outdoor education (see, for example, the forest school).

The text offers a pair of glasses to read the needs of the children and respond to them by giving importance to body-mind unity, the originality of the children, the relationship with the natural environment and the integrative, preventive and inclusive potential that it offers.  The in-depth theoretical parts find continuity and concreteness in the shared practical experiences and make the text a useful reference for anyone who works with children and wants to rethink their needs and their educational role while looking for sense, enjoyment, and naturalness.

A rich volume, full of practical examples which can immediately be put into practice. 


–             A brief glance over the Alps

–             Natural rights and needs

Autonomy, risk, responsibility

Health

Quality of growth and contact

Relationships

–             An overview of psychomotor: theoretical roots

Space and relationships

Autonomy and being present

Energetic nature of the person

Play and infantile nature: the roots of the person

–             Educational relationships and the psychomotor point-of-view

–             The nature of educational relationships

The educational viewpoint: integrating emotion to integrate the Self and the Other

The body-emotion axis

The body that speaks

Space, time, objects

Educational metaphors

Playing spontaneously well and badly: nature of well-being and discomfort

Body memory and harmonic growth

The rules, the pacts

Education in nature: which practices?

–             Experiences

Animal oasis

Agriculture-school

Floodplain

The nature of change

A story

–             Naturally able

–             Rights of the educator

–             Helping help each other

–             Integrated point-of-view and plurality of viewpoints





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