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Brenda Reed x77644
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Shelley Woods x76118
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Subjects: Education

Forest Schools

Child & Nature alliance of Canada

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Child & Nature Alliance of Canada: Forest School Canada

MacEachren, Zabe. (2013). The Canadian forest school movement. LEARNing Landscapes, 7, 219-233.

Queen's University professor MacEachren "documents the rationale and benefits of Forest Schools". 

Gregory, Alice. (18 May 2017). Running free in Germany's outdoor preschools, New York Times Style Magazine.

Features the Robin Hood Waldkindergarten and notes that a 2003 PhD dissertation by Peter Hafner (Heidelberg) provides evidence that graduates of German forest kindergartens perform "better in cognitive and physical ability, as well as in creativity and social development" than their regular classroom kindergarten peers.

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