{"id":2934,"date":"2020-12-10T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2020-12-18T10:50:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:50:39","slug":"it-is-always-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/it-is-always-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Always Worth It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Petra Eperjesi
\n<\/strong>Manager of Forest School Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This post was previously published on the <\/em>Child & Nature Alliance<\/em><\/a>. It is reposted here with permission. <\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got joy on my mind.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s maybe strange during a global pandemic, but I\u2019ve been having so many conversations these days that are all pointing to joy. I asked a colleague who is a special educator who values taking her students outside what has most surprised her in the last year. She said joy! The joy of taking helping students out of their wheelchairs to be laid in a leaf pile, some of them 21 years old, laying in a leaf pile for the first time.\u00a0Joy!<\/em><\/p>\n

I spoke with a person who didn\u2019t understand what I meant when I said that learning can be co-constructed with the land. He said, \u201cthat sounds a lot like free play and recess.\u201d\u00a0I said free play and recess\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0learning.<\/strong>\u00a0The idea that they\u2019re separate(able) is one I\u2019ve rejected and dismantled many times but this time, when a colleague said, \u201cit\u2019s like\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0unfathomable that learning could be fun\u201d,\u00a0 it hit me: Maybe the struggle isn\u2019t in understanding that play is learning. Maybe the issue is that we\u2019ve so divorced learning from joy and so married it to work \u2013 industrialized, repetitive, efficient, one size fits all work \u2013 \u00a0that we\u2019ve forgotten that learning can look and sound and feel joyful! Playful! Fun!<\/p>\n

At this time of a global pandemic we are being pushed to reimagine what education will look like. We are being told to figure out new protocols, new routines, new strategies. If it has to be (gets to be?!) new, if it has to be (gets to be?!) reimagined,\u00a0let us reimagine it outside!<\/strong>\u00a0We know that outside is safest right now physically, and we\u2019ve long known and felt that it\u2019s good for us emotionally and psychologically.<\/p>\n

That same special educator who shared her \u201cleaf therapy\u201d story with me also spoke to how much work it is to take children outside, especially those with\u00a0exceptionalities and disabilities<\/a>, and, she said, \u201cit is\u00a0always\u00a0worth\u00a0it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s make the effort. Let\u2019s meet this moment. Let\u2019s reimagine education outside.\u00a0Let\u2019s make room for joy!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Petra Eperjesi, Manager of Forest School Canada writes about how we can reimagine education outside and make room for joy during tough times. Originally published on the Child & Nature Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}