Categorie: Development space
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Nature does not think in methods
Nature does not think in methods. Not every child is delivered to just one and the same method in nature. In nature, every child can find their own path that at that moment best suits their development. Connected with nature, knowledge begins with making contact, experimenting, and gaining experiences. Every book we know is the…
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A child is not a tabula rasa
A child is not a tabula rasa. If you offer every child the same knowledge and experiences, it will not result in the same knowledge and behaviour in each child. Every child has a certain genetic inheritance and uniqueness. Therefore, no matter how much you try to put into a child, if he does not…
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Immaterial safety, the path towards risky play
Technology offers us the possibility to eliminate risks and seemingly create more safety. As a society, we have unconsciously shifted our focus more and more from immaterial safety to material safety. From the very first day of our lives, we grow up in this new reality, and our entire life is interwoven with it. For…
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Without coercion he followed his own path to balance…
Kim grew up within a small tribe of twenty-five relatives along a riverbank. He was the second youngest of four. His brothers were 4 and 16 years old, his sister 12 years old, and he himself 9 years old. He grew up among people who all looked like him. He had no doubt about who…
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The space to develop yourself
With gratitude, I still look back on one of the last school days at primary school. It was an open day at my primary school, and a relay race was going to be held for all pupils from first to sixth grade (group 3 to 8). Pupils in the sixth grade were given the responsibility…