Cultivating Natural Intelligence: Outdoor Learning Environments in Museums by Mandy Baughman July 18, 2006
Cultivating Natural Intelligence: Outdoor Learning Environments in Museums by Mandy Baughman July 18, 2006
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2006
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Baughman, Mandy
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This master's project focuses on this potential alignment and identifies the ways that museums can create outdoor learning environments to encourage their visitors, especially children, to build a relationship to the local ecology. This project cites numerous sources of research that promote the idea that environmental education must begin at an early age and that the lessons must take place in an outdoor environment. The work of influential authors like David Orr and Richard Louv is examined to justify the need for an increase of environmental education in our institutions of formal and informal learning. Relevant learning philosophies are also examined, including those of John Dewey, Howard Gardner and Lev Vygotsky, to determine the benefits of learning by free exploration in an outdoor environment.