Forest School Canada defined it as "an educational approach, and program of delivery, that has existed since the late 1950s, with thousands of programs expanding the world over, starting in Denmark and Sweden, moving through Scandinavia onto Europe, China, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and now Canada. In Forest and Nature school FNS, children spend anywhere from a half day to a full-day outdoors in local woodlands and green spaces, in various urban and near-urban parks, natural spaces adjacent to or on school grounds, or natural playgrounds and outdoor classrooms."
"Horizons Professional Development For Outdoor Practioners defined that "Forest School is inspirational process, that offers All learners regular opportunities to achieve, develop confidence and self-esteem, through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or natural environment with trees. Forest School is a specialised learning approach that sits within, and compliments, the wider context of outdoor and woodland education."
"Treehouse Learning defines Forest School an innovative educational approach that focuses on the processes of learning rather than content transfer. It is play based, child led learning that takes place in the outdoors. It is a way of stimulating a child’s innate creativity and providing a learning environment that stimulates and utilises the senses of touch, hearing, sight and smell. It is about connecting with the natural world and learning to manage risk. It is letting the children, naturally, through their play, lead the learning in a woodland setting. As Forest School is focused on the process of learning, Forest School leaders have to step outside the box of lesson planning and venture into the exciting territory of the unexpected, unplanned and unlimited. A Forest School leader facilitates learning by providing opportunities for children to explore and discover through open-ended activities in woodland space, scaffolding new understandings as they emerge. Rather than a teacher-directed environment, the children lead through their play and the Forest School leader observes the children, ready to capitalise on and facilitate within the teachable moment."
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