The nature of childhood
Subtitle: an environmental history of growing up in America since 1865
By: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780700619580
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Children; History; Families; Children and the environment; Social conditions; Human ecology; Nature; Effect of human beings on; Environmental conditions; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / School Age; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Activities; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
Description: "Today's organized efforts to lure children outdoors to green spaces signal growing concerns about American youths' deepening estrangement from nature. Covering the last century and a half, this environmental history of American childhood explains how and why we've come to this pass by focusing on those factors that shaped the conflict over who would control children's access to their preferred environments, with adults prevailing more often than not. Armed with technology, however, today's homebound youngsters seemingly are now where they want to be, prompting their elders increasingly to question the wisdom of their protective regime"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: The Environmental Child; title: 1. The Environment and the Farm Child; title: 2. Urban Environments, Urban Children; title: 3. Teaching Nature Appreciation; title: 4. The Environmentally Aware Child at Midcentury; title: 5. Along the High Line; title: 6. Childhood Moves Indoors; title: 7. Reconnections and Reconsiderations; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.