Agroforestry for Educators

Nature has the strength necessary to awaken the essence of the child. Nature brings experiences that cultivate respect, self-knowledge, conscience, resilience, and sense of responsibility. Raising children connected with nature is also a matter of maintaining the future. The child who lives and coexists with the natural environment and develops affinity with nature appreciates and watches over the world around them and recognizes this as their environment of belonging. Agroforestry nurtures the paradigm of abundance, with sociobiodiversity as the value of their relationships, creating empathy for all forms of life. In this way, we plant the future of our children, of our forests and of our planet! We bring attention to what really matters: nature! With theory and also action, we put our hands in the soil.

It is a deep investigation into the mysteries that involve children’s learning based on the rhythms and patters of nature that constantly orchestrates human development. This dialogue on the importance of childhood for adult autonomy and freedom is necessary. This is an educational journey of personal transformation for those who believe that education is also the basis of profound social change. Here we are talking about an interconnected web of resources that compose learning and that need to be thought of by those who care for education. The language of nature in practice requires creating a space of experiences and exchanges that allow us to commune with nature directly through touch, smell, taste, sight and sound. Agroforestry, through its systemic world view, teaches us tools to create a culture with “Nature as a Master”.

 

Arthur joins us from Porto Alegre, Brazil, and is dedicated to the recovery of degraded land through agroforestry systems. He studies with the best references in agroforestry in different regions of the world. In the last year he has dedicated his life as an agroforestry farmer and also as an educator