Nature and Young Children: Encouraging Creative Play and Learning in Natural Environments

Now in its third edition, this essential guide promotes the holistic development of children by connecting them with nature. It offers advice on how to set up indoor and outdoor nature play spaces as well as encouraging environmentally responsible attitudes, values and behaviour in your early childhood setting. With brand new material on sustainability education, Froebel and nature, children living in urban environments, and much more, this highly accessible book will provide all early years practitioners, teachers and students with a wealth of ideas on how to foster creative play and learning in nature-focused environments while also promoting positive connections with nature.

Author: Ruth Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/03/2018
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781138553309

About the Author

Ruth Wilson works with the Children and Nature Network as curator of their Research Library. Her primary area of interest in her work as a consultant and writer for the past 25 years has been on connecting young children with nature.