Education and the Environment: Creating Standards-Based Programs in Schools and Districts
For decades, Gerald Lieberman has been at the forefront of environment-based learning. The concept, which has acquired several names over the years, is essentially this: children and young people learn best when their time in the classroom is augmented by experiences in the wider community . . . School should be more than a polite form of incarceration; it should be a portal to a wider world. Gerald Lieberman's ongoing work underscores the right of a whole child to feel and be fully alive. --From the foreword by Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder