THE VIDEO SHELF · outdoor kindergartens
Denmark's Forest Kindergartens
An SBS Dateline short documentary on Danish forest kindergartens, where children play freely outdoors, climb trees and use knives with little adult intervention.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a concise look at the culture behind outdoor kindergartens in threads on parenting and education.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- SBS Dateline
- Topic
- outdoor kindergartens
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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They're also very popular in Denmark, and the rest of Scandinavia. Description in English: [LINK] And a small documentary: [VIDEO] An equally significant difference for me, coming from the UK, is that there are men working in childcare. My window overlooks a street where a …
Symbiote on Hacker News · 2017-12
In German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015)Here is also a nice short (11 mins) documentary about a kindergarten in Denmark, also from CBS Dateline. [VIDEO]
Mashimo on Hacker News · 2018-02
In Achtung Baby by Sara Zaske, ReviewedHi everyone. This is a very concise (11:32) video that goes over some of the culture and thinking around outdoor kindergartens. I believe that it is quite informative: [VIDEO] I believe that the best part about these schools is that early on they explicitly teach …
IMAYousaf on Hacker News · 2019-09
In Outdoor Preschools
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.