Saturday, February 9, 2008

Re: education outdoors

Eagle's Nest <http://www.enf.org>, which runs a semester-long outdoor
academy for sophomores as well as a summer camp, produces a bumper sticker
that reads: "No Child Left Indoors".

Just thought you might enjoy that. :-)

- marty

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Marty Billingsley
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

GOLDBERG Gregg <gregg.goldberg@roeper.org> writes:
>
> Our school has become intrigued with the issues addressed in Richard
> Louv's book, Last Child in the Woods. They aren't precisely issues
> of outdoor education (ropes courses and the like) or environmental
> education-both of which are certainly valuable-but more of simply
> educating children in the outdoors: making sure that young people have
> opportunities to connect with nature in an age when such opportunities
> are dwindling.
>
> Are ISED-L readers familiar with any programs currently in place that
> speakto these concerns?

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