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Psychomotor instruments for outdoor education
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
