Children and Nature

Elliot, E., & Krusekopf, F. (2018). Growing a Nature Kindergarten that can flourish. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 34(2), 115-126. doi:10.1017/aee.2018.27

Elliot, E., & Krusekopf, F. (2017). Thinking outside the four walls of the classroom: A Canadian Nature Kindergarten. International Journal of Early Childhood, 49(3), 375-389.

Elliot, E., Eycke, K. T., Chan, S., & Mulller, U. (2014). Taking kindergarteners outdoors: Documenting their explorations and assessing the impact on their ecological awareness. Children, Youth and Environments, 24(2), 102-122.

Elliot, E. (2014). Envisioning a Nature Kindergarten. Green Teacher, summer (103), 38-42.

Blanchet-Cohen, N., & Elliot, E. (2011, 2011/09/01). Young Children and Educators Engagement and Learning Outdoors: A Basis for Rights-Based Programming. Early Education and Development, 22(5), 757-777. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2011.596460

Dr. Enid Elliot discusses how active engagement and immersion outdoors allows children to connect deeply with nature through play and experience traditional ways of knowing at the annual Robert Bateman Lecture hosted by Royal Roads University on August 6, 2014. Elliot is one of the founders of the nature kindergarten movement in Canada and is an early learning and child care instructor at Camosun College and adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. Royal Road’s annual Robert Bateman Lecture celebrates Bateman’s legacy of environmental practice, communication and education.

This 2017 video, which features the people involved in establishing the Sooke (BC) Nature Kindergarten at Sangster Elementary and those who taught in it, has commentary from teachers and educators including Enid Elliot, as well as from the school principal and the superintendent of the Sooke School District. It also shows children engaged in nature-based activities through the school day.

This 2013 video follows the children and teachers of the Sangster Elementary Nature Kindergarten as they spend time in the nearby forest landscape.