Children and Nature Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations

Name: Children and Nature Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations
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ISBN: 9780262112673

ISBN-10: 0262112671

ISBN-13: 9780262112673

Edition: 2002

Authors: Peter H. Kahn, Stephen R. Kellert

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Scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific investigations and thought-proviking essays on children and nature.

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Stephen R. Kellert is Tweedy Ordway Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is 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).

Introduction
The Primate Relationship with Nature: Biophilia as a General Pattern	p. 1
The Ecological World of Children	p. 29
The Development of Folkbiology: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Children's Understanding of the Biological World	p. 65
Children's Affiliations with Nature: Structure, Development, and the Problem of Environmental Generational Amnesia	p. 93
Experiencing Nature: Affective, Cognitive, and Evaluative Development in Children	p. 117
Animals as Links toward Developing Caring Relationships with the Natural World	p. 153
Animals in Therapeutic Education: Guides into the Liminal State	p. 179
Spots of Time: Manifold Ways of Being in Nature in Childhood	p. 199
Adolescents and the Natural Environment: A Time Out?	p. 227
Adolescents and Ecological Identity: Attending to Wild Nature	p. 259
Political Economy and the Ecology of Childhood	p. 279
Eden in a Vacant Lot: Special Places, Species, and Kids in the Neighbourhood of Life	p. 305
List of Contributors	p. 329
Name Index	p. 331
Subject Index	p. 341
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