The Chesnut Tree School, Spain

Programme Overview

Type: Face to Face
Language: Spanish

Website: https://www.thechestnuttree.org/

Contact: nutforestschool@gmail.com

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In the heart of nature

As a nature project, we aim to embrace diversity, care for our community and facilitate reconciliation in the world.

We believe in a new vision of education that nurtures children’s emotions and sensibility, providing them with the necessary tools, so they can flourish with purpose in the world.

We invite you to join our international community and find out how we could better support each other.

“Researchers agree that increased contact with nature is seen as an integral and vital component of education, particularly in early years settings where Nature projects are being introduced. Since the eighteenth century, pioneers of early education, namely Froebel, Montessori and Steiner, have valued the outdoors and recognized the importance of contact with nature, with particular reference to learning through active, hands-on play (Constable, 2012)”.

What is Gaia In Schools?

Change Agents Gaia in Schools Programme is a school programme based on Gaia Education Whole-Systems Design for Sustainability curriculum and conducted over a particular time period during one school year. The programme aims to incorporate teaching and learning for sustainable community development and calls for sustainable development to be integrated throughout the School’s curriculum in a holistic manner, rather than being taught on a stand alone basis. This approach supports the notion that Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is education for sustainable development rather than education about sustainable development.

How to run a Gaia in Schools programme

Gaia in Schools Programme is a school programme based on Gaia Education Whole-Systems Design for Sustainability curriculum and conducted over a particular time period during one school year.

A school interested in developing a certified Gaia in Schools Programme will design and adopt its own programme following Gaia Education core curriculum, certification criteria and local context. After that the school can apply for certification and when certified, it becomes officially certified Gaia in Schools Programme.

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