Children and nature
Subtitle: psychological, sociocultural, and evolutionary investigations
By: edited by Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and Stephen R. Kellert
Contributors: Kahn, Peter H; Kellert, Stephen R
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Nature -- Psychological aspects; Children and the environment
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: The primate relationship with nature: biophilia as a general pattern / Peter Verbeek and Frans B.M. de Waal; title: The ecological world of children / Judith H. Heerwagen and Gordon H. Orians; title: The development of folkbiology: a cognitive science perspective on children's understanding of the biological world / John D. Coley, Gregg E.A. Solomon, and Patrick Shafto; title: Children's affiliations with nature: structure, development, and the problem of environmental generational amnesia / Peter H. Kahn, Jr.; title: Experiencing nature: affective, cognitive, and evaluative development in children / Stephen R. Kellert; title: Animals as links toward developing caring relationships with the natural world / Olin Eugene Myers, Jr. and Carol D. Saunders; title: Animals in therapeutic education: guides into the liminal state / Aaron Katcher; title: Spots of time: manifold ways of being in nature in childhood / Louise Chawla; title: Adolescents and the natural environment: a time out? / Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan; title: Adolescents and ecological identity: attending to wild nature / Cynthia Thomashow; title: Political economy and the ecology of childhood / David W. Orr; title: Eden in a vacant lot: special places, species, and kids in the neighborhood of life / Robert Michael Pyle