https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2022.2.03
The subject of the article is the pedagogical potential of the forest, necessary for people professionally involved in teaching and upbringing and equally necessary to include foresters and forest educators in their professional practice. We are all entering the time of the climate crisis with its unpredictable consequences, the baggage of unresolved issues and the suddenly widened field of ignorance. Creating new knowledge, new competences and searching for a new educational paradigm for pedagogy and forestry seems to be urgently needed. It is about shaping the obligations towards the forest as soon as possible in the current generations, and not – as it has been the case so far – the obligations of the forest towards people. This requires seeing and understanding the fourth – the spiritual dimension of the forest, beyond the Euclidean quantitative dimensions. Shifting the emphasis from the position of “holding power” over nature, to the less lucrative position of a co-host, from knowing everything and better, to seeking relational knowledge, from breaking the laws of nature to respecting these laws, requires an interdisciplinary pedagogical effort of children, adolescents and adults.
Download files
Citation rules
Cited by / Share
Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
English
Język Polski