The importance of nature in children’s development

• Autores: Oliver Traynor, Robert Sutton, Avril Johnstone, Paul McCrorie, Anne Martin
• Localización: Physical education in early childhood: movement and development from 3 to 6 years / coord. por Markel Rico González, 2025, ISBN 9781041016182
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Traditional early childhood education (ECE) settings are typically characterised by children spending most of their time indoors and when they are outdoors the playground tends to have limited integration of natural elements, such as trees and woodland areas, varied topography, and vegetation with a variety of trees, rocks, fallen logs, and loose parts. On the contrary, in nature-based ECE, nature is integrated into the philosophy, curriculum, and/or wider environment, and children typically spend most of their day outdoors in immersive nature experiences. The opportunity to explore the concepts of Learning to Move and Moving to Learn is enhanced beyond the traditional approach to teaching physical education. This is due to the wide affordances the natural environment provides in achieving physical competence, in addition to the wider social, emotional, and cognitive outcomes that physical education seeks to achieve.