Wilderness school

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Wilderness schools impart knowledge of life and survival in harmony with nature in courses or training courses .

term

The term wilderness school comes originally from America . The wilderness schools impart the primal techniques and knowledge of old tribes and indigenous peoples , their way of life, culture and handicrafts and knowledge of the wilderness. The aim is to raise awareness of life and survival in and with nature and to make access to nature easier to understand. The term wilderness school became known worldwide through the Tracker School founded by Tom Brown Jr. The wilderness schools also got an experienced mentor through his later pupil Jon Young.

The wilderness schools are free schools and there is no uniformly recognized and regulated training, although the training content is usually almost the same.

Methods

In the schools, the techniques of the indigenous peoples or tribes are taught in order to bring people closer to nature and to reactivate almost forgotten knowledge. With the help of coyote teaching, a method to convey knowledge holistically, as the indigenous peoples practice, the learning content is absorbed not only through the mind, but also through feeling and instincts, and an interest in nature is also aroused.

The nature of mentoring is to discover a special way that nature to explore and new. It helps with the so-called nature deficit syndrome , which describes the phenomenon of increasing alienation from nature. It is also a collective term for deficits in the physical, psychological and spiritual and shows clear deficiencies in daily life that exist in a non-connected society.

Nature mentoring is an effective and efficient way to connect with nature. Various methods and exercises are used to implement routines in order to strengthen and renew connections between people and nature.

The courses can, for example, consist of the following teaching units:

Survival techniques, herbs and herbalism, making arrows and bows, building knives, reading traces, making stone tools , turning natural cord, pottery, language of nature, building traps, water purification, building stone ovens, carving, group dynamics, reflection, self-awareness, perception and sensory exercises, igloo building, orientation, First aid, outdoor training, coaching / mentoring methods, leather processing, cooking over an open fire, natural history, ecology and economics.

application areas

A course at a wilderness school can be useful in child, youth and adult education to consolidate the relationship to nature, to set processes in motion and to gain a new awareness of environmental education. There are holiday camps for children, and outdoor training courses are recommended for fixed groups and companies.

In wilderness schools mostly wilderness educators work, who in turn also work in forest kindergartens and as freelance workers.

literature

  • Young Jon: Haas Ellen, McGown Evan Coyote-Guide, Handbook for Mentors ISBN 978-3-9806236-6-7
  • Young Jon: Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature ISBN 978-1-57994-025-6
  • Loepthien, Elke (2011): Connectedness as an aspect of an ecology of learning . Diploma thesis at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde (FH). Supervised by Norbert Jung and Geseko v. Lüpke. ISBN 978-3-656-16834-8 .
  • Nülle, Susanne (2008): Coyote Teaching / Wild Knowledge and the Effects in Forest Kindergarten Work. Practice report at the University of Bremen. ISBN 978-3-640-64412-4
  • Trommer, Gerhard (1992): Wilderness - the educational challenge. Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim
  • Trommer, Gerhard & R. Noack (1997): Nature in environmental education - perspectives for large protected areas. Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim

Web links

In Europe there are networks of the various free nature and wilderness schools:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita of Jon Young , accessed November 11, 2016
  2. ↑ Richard Louv: The last child in the forest? Beltz Weinheim, 2011. ISBN 3-407-85934-1 .