Introducing myself..

[dirtwitch]

Hi there,

My name's Kerry Eady and I'm an artist and self employed art teacher.
I work with children and adults and I built my program without much
educational theory behind it. Just going on gut instinct and my
experience in the local homeschool community.

I recently read Richard Louv's book - Last Chld in the Woods and it
resonated with my experience and personal philosophy around teaching
and learning. Louv introduced me to the term "Experiential Learning",
and I thought I'd join this list to learn more about the theory behind
it.

I'm looking forward to following the discussion here even though it is
likely I'll be an infrequent poster.

Kerr

[James Neill - Wilderdom]

Hi Kerry,

Welcome - some interesting points on connection - thanks for posting -

I have some 4th year uni students this semester researching an 'art therapy'
program run by a local community arts centre for 'at risk' adolescents
(mostly anxiety/depression type issues); so its been interesting to learn
more about arts as an experiential modality and I'm looking forward to
seeing what they discover. One of them, for example, is looking at the
process of creativity during the program and examining whether the
participants feel like they become more creative and more able to creatively
self-express and creatively approach problems. I'd be interested to hear
more about the program you've created.

I have one copy of Louv sitting up on the shelf peering at me but have only
dabbled so far; am ooking forward to it - I'm pretty partial to be a bit of
psychoevolutionary theory :). But from your posting I'm curious about what
piqued your curiousity from Louv's book?

Sincerely,
James