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And a brief round up of uplifting stories

Inspiring story of 80 year old woman’s 600 mile annual journey with her horse and dog

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/5194/The-Inspiring-Annual-600-Mile-Journey-Of-An-80-Year-Old-Woman-With-Her-Horse-And-Dog

A study showed that more outdoor time in nature helped students concentrate better:

“For example, the experiment reported by Kuo et al. (2018) was designed to test the validity of teachers’ common fear that if they take a class to an outdoor setting in nature, students will never settle down to concentrate on lessons after they return to the school building (finding, in contrast, that students concentrated better in their subsequent indoor class).”

"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487259/#B11

Movement-based education is gaining steam, as researchers discover the power of embodied learning!

“When using holistic methods of teaching and learning, one of them being the creative movement method, children develop in the physical, motor, intellectual, emotional, and social fields. Holistic learning means understanding with both the body and mind. The benefits of inviting students to work in movement and dance are numerous and far-reaching. Movement and dance help students:

 focus and engage in learning;

 apply their kinesthetic intelligence;

 understand concepts and themes;

 develop and refine their higher-level thinking skills;

 communicate in unique ways and appreciate the artistic expression of others;

 develop spatial awareness;

 cooperate and collaborate with each other. (Zakkai, 1997, p. 10)

More and more often, preschool and primary school teachers use the method of creative movement when working with children. They use it for motivation, explanation, and strengthening of mathematical concepts; for easier understanding of science; and for literacy instruction. Creative movement is already recognized as a method for teaching a language (mother tongue or foreign language). Creative movement as a teaching/learning approach can make the curriculum more tangible, accessible, memorable, and effective for children. Trustcommunication, cooperation, empathy, discipline, persistence, introspection, creative thinking, problem solving, observation, analysis, criticism – all are part of the process of creative movement approach.”

https://ausdance.org.au/uploads/content/publications/2012-global-summit/dance-learning-rp/creative-movement-an-opportunity-for-affective-education.pdf