This summer Jen Rose Smith interviewed me for a piece she was writing for CNN on outdoor classrooms as a safer alternative during the COVID-19 pandemic. That piece was published here.
During the interview, we talked about the outdoor classroom my students and I built at Augustana University.
When she asked me if there were precedents to teaching outdoors as I am wont to do, I mentioned several, from Aristotle's "peripatetic" instruction to the contemporary Norwegian idea of "friluftsliv."
Recently she got back in touch to let me know that after learning about friluftsliv she went on to research and write an article on that subject for National Geographic. This warms a teacher's heart! I love it when an interview not only helps write a good article, but also helps the writer to keep learning--and then to keep teaching good things. Have a look at her piece for NatGeo, and then, if you're at all able, spend a little time outdoors. It's good for you.
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