From Onlookers to Ecosystem-Assistants: Exploring the Potentials of Ecological Restoration Education

This chapter introduces the concept and practice of “ecological restoration education” (ERE) as a novel pedagogical approach for schoolchildren. ERE combines insights from the field of “outdoor education” and “ecological restoration” and has the overarching objective of fostering learning about biodiversity through practical experience of ecosystem restoration. This chapter draws on experiences from an ERE-project in Sweden called Skolbacken run by the Swedish Anglers Association. The aim of the chapter is to describe and discuss ERE as a potential strategy to spread interest about the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem management among future generations.