Book club today!

What role should nature REALLY play in education?

Update: if you’re a paid subscriber, you can watch the video of the book club, below. (I’m proud of how we do privacy: mine is the only face you can see, and everyone else uses thematic code names…)

I have many strengths, but chief among them is forgetting important things.

To wit: this afternoon is our monthly “book” club, and I had totally forgotten! It’s a seriously good thing we don’t actually read “books”.

We’ll ask a simple question: what role should nature play in education? Beforehand, you’ll want to re-read two posts: Know a Tree° & Know a Place°.

Saturday, June 1
3pm Eastern Daylight / 12pm Pacific Daylight

Imaginary Interlocutor: Should I expect a bunch of hippies making sad mouth shapes about screens?

[shudders] I hope not.

We’ll avoid sentimentality, and steer toward hard questions. Lots of educators talk warmly about “nature”, and then freak out when their kids go outside and see this:

I am Nature, and so can you!

And we all do most of of living and educating inside; going outside takes time, energy, and brain cells that we could be giving to other things. When is it worth it? Why?

What role should nature really play in education?

You can find out more about how our book clubs are run (and upcoming sessions) here. Paid subscribers will see the Zoom link beyond the pay wall, which I’ll put right…