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Embracing Risk
We believe it is important for multidisciplinary groups of design professionals, environmental advocates, educators, health care professionals, and families to work together to design and support spaces and experiences that help children make connections with nature a sustaining and enriching part of their daily lives.
This edition of Wonder is focused on the following Nature Action Collaborative for Children Universal Principle:
We believe it is important for educators to support children’s appropriate risk taking and adventurous play in nature.
Following are varied perspectives on what it takes to embrace risk in quite different circumstances. You’ll find stories of communities finding the courage needed to support children as they recover from a natural disaster, an administrator helping teachers dare to think differently, and a college student developing confidence in herself as she supports children. All of these people are working to help create feelings of safety and security in their own contexts so that adventurous risk taking can occur.
Reflection: Feeling Safe Enough to Play after a Natural Disaster
from Bishnu Hari Bhatta, Nepal, co-creator of World Forum Foundation’s International Mud Day
Partnership for Sustainable Development (PSD) Nepal has successfully completed ...