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10 Steps to Starting Your Own School Outdoor Education Program
Imagine a world where every school has outdoor education built into the school fabric and ethos. Imagine a school where children are...

Alex Moxon
Mar 7, 20193 min read
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Experiential Education Fosters a Love of Learning Like Nothing Else! Ask Albert Einstein.
In a world where children spend most of their education cooped up in small boxes called classrooms, real-world experiential learning can...

Alex Moxon
Mar 4, 20193 min read
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Youth Everywhere Are Protesting for Urgent Action On Climate Change!
On 23rd January 2019, 16 year old Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In...

Alex Moxon
Feb 16, 20193 min read
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Creating Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs through Outdoor Learning
Children growing up in the 21st Century will need to be adaptable, dynamic and creative lifelong learners in a highly uncertain...

Alex Moxon
Feb 14, 20193 min read
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Is Outdoor Education a Privilege of the Wealthy?
I've been thinking about this question for a while now, and I've come to learn the unfortunate truth. There is a burgeoning inequality in...

Alex Moxon
Feb 9, 20196 min read
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"Nature is Boring. I Want My Smart Phone Back!"
Sometimes the older children become, it seems the less interested they become in nature and the outdoors. As an experiential educator in...

Alex Moxon
Feb 4, 20195 min read
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What Is the Future of Outdoor Education?
The concept of modern outdoor education is nothing new. It owes its beginnings to separate initiatives. Organized camping was evident in...

Alex Moxon
Jan 31, 20194 min read
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Let's Scrap Environmental Education & Get Ourselves Off Planet Earth!
In a recent conversation with a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) teaching colleague, who is also an avid reader of...

Alex Moxon
Jan 28, 20193 min read
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Exploring Science Outdoors Encourages a Love of Learning Like Nothing Else.
Scientific literacy is vital nowadays. In our age of "fake news" and "alternative facts", the ability to discern between credible...

Alex Moxon
Jan 27, 20193 min read
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Is It Time to Re-think Outdoor Education for the 21st Century?
Outdoor and Experiential Education (OEE) is the perfect vehicle for developing young people into well-informed global citizens. The kind...

Alex Moxon
Jan 19, 20195 min read
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Soft Skills Are Now More Important than Hard Knowledge. Here's Why.
In the past, people with formal university qualifications from the best education institutions, with the best networks of professional...

Alex Moxon
Jan 2, 20195 min read
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Best 5 Pedagogical Approaches for Top-notch Sustainability Education
Environmental and sustainability education means incorporating key sustainable development issues into teaching and learning; for...

Alex Moxon
Dec 29, 20182 min read
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Getting Kids in Nature is Not Enough. Actions Speak Louder Than Words.
If we are to create a new generation of ecoliterate young people who truly understand and value nature's life supporting systems, we must...

Alex Moxon
Dec 21, 20184 min read
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Creativity is the Future. Let's Embrace It in Education.
If you want your kids to grow up to be future-proof in an uncertain and highly globalized world, develop their creative thinking skills.

Alex Moxon
Dec 15, 20183 min read
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Let Teachers Do What They Do Best. Let Them Teach!
Teachers have always had a big remit to fulfill. They're expected to mentor successive generations towards a bright future by providing...

Alex Moxon
Dec 11, 20181 min read
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Fear of Liability Must Not Stop Us Getting Children Outdoors!
In recent years, I've actively sought global opportunities to work in outdoor and experiential education roles for youth in various...

Alex Moxon
Dec 10, 20185 min read
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Top 5 Ways to Empower Children to Tackle the 21st Century Environmental Burden We're Leaving Them
Environmental Education (EE) in the context of sustainable development is essential for the next generation to build a brighter future in...

Alex Moxon
Dec 5, 20184 min read
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Philanthropy is Not the Solution to Sustainability. Here's Why.
Ecosia is a commercially-driven and clever search engine powered by Microsoft. But why would anyone want to change search engines from...

Alex Moxon
Nov 26, 20183 min read
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Is Outdoor Play Just a Big Waste of Time?
Some believe that outdoor play for children has little educational value. It's unstructured and has no obvious learning outcomes, you...

Alex Moxon
Nov 25, 20183 min read
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The Sustainability Agenda is Failing. It's Time to Turn Education on its Head.
If we teach the next generation of youngsters what we've always taught the children in our schools, how can we expect anything other than...

Alex Moxon
Nov 21, 20184 min read
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