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• catalog abstract "Annotation For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contextsof children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a criticalcomponent of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientificknowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. Thisbook provides scientific investigations and thought-provoking essays on children and nature.Childrenand Nature 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 natureduring childhood; the formation of children's conceptions, values, and sympathies toward the naturalworld; how contact with nature affects children's physical and mental development; and theeducational and political consequences of the weakened childhood experience of nature in modernsociety.".
• catalog contributor b12550141.
• catalog contributor b12550142.
• catalog contributor b12550143.
• catalog contributor b12550144.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description "Annotation For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contextsof children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a criticalcomponent of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientificknowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. Thisbook provides scientific investigations and thought-provoking essays on children and nature.Childrenand Nature 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 natureduring childhood; the formation of children's conceptions, values, and sympathies toward the naturalworld; how contact with nature affects children's physical and mental development; and theeducational and political consequences of the weakened childhood experience of nature in modernsociety.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
• catalog description "The primate relationship with nature: biophilia as a general pattern / Peter Verbeek and Frans B.M. de Waal -- The ecological world of children / Judith H. Heerwagen and Gordon H. Orians -- 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 -- Children's affiliations with nature: structure, development, and the problem of environmental generational amnesia / Peter H. Kahn, Jr. -- Experiencing nature: affective, cognitive, and evaluative development in children / Stephen R. Kellert -- Animals as links toward developing caring relationships with the natural world / Olin Eugene Myers, Jr. and Carol D. Saunders -- Animals in therapeutic education: guides into the liminal state / Aaron Katcher -- Spots of time: manifold ways of being in nature in childhood / Louise Chawla -- Adolescents and the natural environment: a time out? / Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan -- Adolescents and ecological identity: attending to wild nature / Cynthia Thomashow -- Political economy and the ecology of childhood / David W. Orr -- Eden in a vacant lot: special places, species, and kids in the neighborhood of life / Robert Michael Pyle.".
• catalog extent "xix, 348 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0262112671 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0262611759 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
• catalog subject "305.23 21".
• catalog subject "BF353.5.N37 C47 2002".
• catalog subject "Children and the environment.".
• catalog subject "Nature Psychological aspects.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The primate relationship with nature: biophilia as a general pattern / Peter Verbeek and Frans B.M. de Waal -- The ecological world of children / Judith H. Heerwagen and Gordon H. Orians -- 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 -- Children's affiliations with nature: structure, development, and the problem of environmental generational amnesia / Peter H. Kahn, Jr. -- Experiencing nature: affective, cognitive, and evaluative development in children / Stephen R. Kellert -- Animals as links toward developing caring relationships with the natural world / Olin Eugene Myers, Jr. and Carol D. Saunders -- Animals in therapeutic education: guides into the liminal state / Aaron Katcher -- Spots of time: manifold ways of being in nature in childhood / Louise Chawla -- Adolescents and the natural environment: a time out? / Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan -- Adolescents and ecological identity: attending to wild nature / Cynthia Thomashow -- Political economy and the ecology of childhood / David W. Orr -- Eden in a vacant lot: special places, species, and kids in the neighborhood of life / Robert Michael Pyle.".
• catalog title "Children and nature : psychological, sociocultural, and evolutionary investigations / edited by Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and Stephen R. Kellert.".
• catalog type "text".