'Mother-Trees' and Teachers: Connecting My Daughter's Environmental Education with Diana Beresford-Kroeger's Enduring Wisdom

Autor/inn/en	Heath, Simon; Beresford-Kroeger, Diana; Stickney, Jeff
Titel	'Mother-Trees' and Teachers: Connecting My Daughter's Environmental Education with Diana Beresford-Kroeger's Enduring Wisdom
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54 (2020) 4, S.1053-1063 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/1467-9752.12465
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Environmental Education; Teaching Methods; Forestry; Individualized Instruction; Discovery Learning; Activism; Transformative Learning; Documentaries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Forstwissenschaft; Waldwirtschaft; Individualisierender Unterricht; Entdeckendes Lernen; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Pädagogische Transformation; Documentary film; Documentary films; Dokumentarfilm
Abstract	How does environmental knowledge move from an expert's books into the life and learning of a small community? Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a renowned author of "The Global Forest and Arboretum America, A Philosophy of the Forest," kindly agreed to an interview with Simon Heath, organiser of a rural literary festival. In working with the transcripts, it dawned on Simon Heath (author) and Jeff Stickney (editor) that the educational story here is about community members gathering under a big tent to watch Diana's documentary, 'The Call of the Forest', hearing her eye-opening explanation of how trees can positively affect our health and climate. Inspired by seeing a small group of preteen girls fundraising and distributing maple saplings to the 150 people in attendance, the narrative follows the educational path of one of these children, attending an alternative Forest School that allows for discovery approaches to individualised environmental learning and activism. Phenomenologically, the vignette opens to view how words of wisdom, both scientific and spiritual, percolate into the lives of readers and listeners, inspiring both children and adults to begin changing how they live. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2022/1/01