Children and Nature

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Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations

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For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a critical component of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific investigations and thought-provoking essays on children and nature. This work incorporates research from cognitive science, developmental psychology, ecology, education, environmental studies, evolutionary psychology, political science, primatology, psychiatry, and social psychology. The authors examine the evolutionary significance of nature during childhood; the formation of children's conceptions, values, and sympathies toward the natural world; how contact with nature affects children's physical and mental development; and the educational and political consequences of the weakened childhood experience of nature in modern society.

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Peter H. Kahn, Jr., is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington, author of Technological Nature (MIT Press), and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Ecopsychology. He is coauthor (Patricial H. Hasbach) of The Rediscovery of the Wild (MIT Press). Stephen R. Kellert was Tweedy Ordway Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He was the author of a number of books, including Building for Life- Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection, and the coeditor of Children and Nature- Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Foundations (MIT Press).

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May 3rd, 2002

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

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Edited by Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
Edited by Stephen R. Kellert

Pages

370

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The MIT Press

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780262611756

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3608938

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