November 24: dialogue about child and nature

In conversation with educational pedagogue Dieuwke Hovinga at the Novalis College in Eindhoven

[Please be aware: this evening will be in Dutch]

Educational pedagogue and researcher Dieuwke Hovinga will discuss the importance of nature for the development of children on November 24. As a former lecturer in Nature and Child Development (2011-2025) at the Hogeschool Leiden and the Thomas More University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam, she has created an active research community around Nature-Inclusive Education.

The Iona Foundation strives for education in which the growing human being can develop as a thinking, feeling, and practical being in and with the world. Education with the aim that children develop in such a way that they help shape the world of tomorrow. In this, education is asked to rethink and act anew. A renewed and strengthened awareness that humans and nature are inextricably linked and that all life is inextricably intertwined is guiding in this.

Program (free access)
6:00-8:30 PM

Location
Novalis College, Sterrenlaan 16, 5631 KA Eindhoven

Access is free, but please register.

Please be aware the main language is Dutch