Upon his appearance on Earth, the human being is inserted into a system completely made up of nature, becoming an essential part and main interlocutor within an ambivalent dialogue, subject to continuous evolution, marked by the great changes of history. It is precisely within this "discourse on the environment" that has taken on the features of ecology that, in more recent times, the idea of the need for an education aimed at building a society able to know the biophysical environment and its problems, aware of how to help solve these problems motivated to work to solve it and to solve the problems.
For children, today more than ever, the simple accumulation of disjointed information cannot be enough: they need the opportunity for connections and alliances to build their own global interpretations of the world, in a perspective defined as "humanism again" through which the school can "teaching how to recompose the great objects of knowledge - the universe, the planet, nature, life, humanity, society, the body, the mind, history - aimed at overcoming the fragmentation of disciplines and integrating them into new overviews […]; The conquest that the great problems of the current human condition [...] can be tackled through close collaboration not only between nations, but also between disciplines and between cultures (National Guidelines).
Associating the individual with an active process of solving context-specific problems is what makes it possible to animate initiative, better responsibility and the commitment to build a future according to an ecological perspective. Because of this connotation, environmental education can contribute to a wider educational renewal, opening the possibility for a pedagogical shift that combines school subjects in a holistic approach that is firmly rooted in the imaginative and adventurous learning that blossoms out.
The pedagogy of nature builds in the invisible context of birth and growth, welcoming planetary contaminations to relaunch them to children. It is education for Peace, Freedom and Consciousness and only when education truly embraces nature that one can begin to imagine another possible future.