Publish at October 05 2022 Updated October 05 2022
An ecopsychological approach developed by Joana Macy that helps pedagogy to integrate the challenges of life. Moving from the closed spaces of the school as a monofunctional place of transmission from brain to brain to open spaces of relationship of the whole being in connection with its environment.
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