Title: How UDL fits in Outdoor Education and Environmental Education
Course: Accessible by Nature: Designing EE to Support All Learners > Section: Module 2: Exploring UDL

TASK 10: Reflect on the video in the previous task. How do the principles and goals of UDL support NAAEE’s Key Underpinnings of EE?

“Key Underpinnings of the Field: The field of EE is characterized by key underpinnings, including a focus on learners of all ages—from early childhood to seniors. It focuses on the importance of experiential, interdisciplinary education, and helping all learners develop problem solving and decision-making skills, understand how to be a civically engaged citizen, and how to create a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable society. EE also advances key societal issues—from the Next Generation Science Standards to STEM to climate change education.

    - Focus on systems thinking
    - Lifelong learning: cradle to grave
    - Equity & Inclusion
    - Focus on sound science
    - Built on a sustainability platform
    - Interdisciplinary
    - Sense of place
    - Reflects best practice in education (learner-centered, experiential, and project-based learning)
    - Informed decision making” ( NAAEE)

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