By the Swedish Outdoor Association’s accounting, as many as two million children have at some point been educated by this raggedy forest troll either by going to a forest school or joining one of the association’s many nature groups for children, so-called Skogsmulle schools. It’s hard to overestimate the influence of Mulle on outdoor education in Sweden, and the phenomenon has spread internationally, to Norway, Finland, Latvia, Russia, the UK, and Germany. In Japan, he’s led the upswing of outdoor education and almost garnered a cult following as more than five hundred Japanese educators have
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