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• catalog abstract "In this unique collaboration, naturalists Gary Nabhan and Stephen Trimble investigate how children come to care deeply about the natural world. They ask searching questions about what may happen to children denied exposure to wild places - a reality for more children today than at any time in human history. The authors remember pivotal events in their own childhood that led each to a life-long relationship with the land: Nabhan's wanderings in the wasteland of steel mills and power plants of Gary, Indiana, and in the Indiana Dunes; Trimble's travels in the West with a geologist father. They tell stories of children learning about wild places and creatures in settings ranging from cities and suburbs to isolated Nevada sheep ranches to Native American communities in the Southwest and Mexico. The Geography of Childhood draws insights from fields as various as evolutionary biology, child psychology, education, and ethnography. The book urges adults to rethink our children's contact with nature. Small children have less need for large-scale wilderness than for a garden, gully, or field to create a crucial tie to the natural world. Nabhan suggests that traditional wilderness-oriented rites of passage may help cure the alienation of adolescence: "Those who as adolescents fail to pass through such rites remain in an arrested state of immaturity for the remainder of their lives." Trimble's fatherhood leads him to question how we grant different freedoms to girls and boys in their exploration of nature - and how this bias powerfully affects adult lives. Both authors return to their experiences with indigenous peoples to show how nature is taught and wilderness understood in cultures historically grounded outside of America's cities and suburbs. The Geography of Childhood makes clear how human growth remains rooted, as it always has, both in childhood and in wild landscapes. It is an essential book for all parents and teachers who wonder what our children may miss if they never experience local wildlife or wild landscapes.".
• catalog contributor b5888908.
• catalog contributor b5888909.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "In this unique collaboration, naturalists Gary Nabhan and Stephen Trimble investigate how children come to care deeply about the natural world. They ask searching questions about what may happen to children denied exposure to wild places - a reality for more children today than at any time in human history. The authors remember pivotal events in their own childhood that led each to a life-long relationship with the land: Nabhan's wanderings in the wasteland of steel mills and power plants of Gary, Indiana, and in the Indiana Dunes; Trimble's travels in the West with a geologist father. They tell stories of children learning about wild places and creatures in settings ranging from cities and suburbs to isolated Nevada sheep ranches to Native American communities in the Southwest and Mexico. The Geography of Childhood draws insights from fields as various as evolutionary biology, child psychology, education, and ethnography. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184).".
• catalog description "Introduction / Robert Coles -- A child's sense of Wildness / Nabhan -- The scripture of maps, the names of trees: a child's landscape / Trimble -- Going truant: the initiation of young naturalists / Nabhan -- A land of one's own: gender and landscape / Trimble -- Children in touch, creatures in story / Nabhan -- A wilderness, with cows: working with landscape / Trimble -- Learning herps / Nabhan -- Sing me down the mountain: a father's landscape / Trimble.".
• catalog description "It is an essential book for all parents and teachers who wonder what our children may miss if they never experience local wildlife or wild landscapes.".
• catalog description "The book urges adults to rethink our children's contact with nature. Small children have less need for large-scale wilderness than for a garden, gully, or field to create a crucial tie to the natural world. Nabhan suggests that traditional wilderness-oriented rites of passage may help cure the alienation of adolescence: "Those who as adolescents fail to pass through such rites remain in an arrested state of immaturity for the remainder of their lives." Trimble's fatherhood leads him to question how we grant different freedoms to girls and boys in their exploration of nature - and how this bias powerfully affects adult lives. Both authors return to their experiences with indigenous peoples to show how nature is taught and wilderness understood in cultures historically grounded outside of America's cities and suburbs. The Geography of Childhood makes clear how human growth remains rooted, as it always has, both in childhood and in wild landscapes. ".
• catalog extent "xxv, 184 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Geography of childhood.".
• catalog identifier "0807085243 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Geography of childhood.".
• catalog isPartOf "Concord library".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
• catalog relation "Geography of childhood.".
• catalog subject "155.4 20".
• catalog subject "BF353.5.N37 N32 1994".
• catalog subject "Child rearing.".
• catalog subject "Children and the environment.".
• catalog subject "Nature Psychological aspects.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Robert Coles -- A child's sense of Wildness / Nabhan -- The scripture of maps, the names of trees: a child's landscape / Trimble -- Going truant: the initiation of young naturalists / Nabhan -- A land of one's own: gender and landscape / Trimble -- Children in touch, creatures in story / Nabhan -- A wilderness, with cows: working with landscape / Trimble -- Learning herps / Nabhan -- Sing me down the mountain: a father's landscape / Trimble.".
• catalog title "The geography of childhood : why children need wild places / Gary Paul Nabhan, Stephen Trimble ; photographs by Stephen Trimble.".
• catalog type "text".