Childhood and Nature

Design Principles for Educators

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Childhood and Nature is a guide for educators looking to foster in their students a love of nature as well as an understanding of complex environmental issues. This second edition brings new material and fresh insights to David Sobel's foundational exploration of place-based education.Sobel articulates seven design principles that teachers can use to build learning experiences: adventure, fantasy and imagination, animal allies, maps and paths, special places, small worlds, and hunting and gathering,. Pulling from recurrent play themes and real-world examples from educators, Sobel details placed-based projects and lessons for each principle. Students learn and develop vital skills through engagement with their local environments and communities. Miniature ecosystems in the "small world" of a sandbox, for example, can help children grasp larger, abstract ideas. A timely and actionable resource, Childhood and Nature shows how centering the world around us in education can create a generation of nature students, explorers, and protectors.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-03-15
Mått:178 x 254 x 15 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Cornell University Press
ISBN:9781501778544

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David Sobel is Professor Emeritus at Antioch University New England and cofounder of the Harrisville Children's Center. Sobel is the author of Beyond Ecophobia, Place-based Education, The Sky Above and the Mud Below, and Wild Play.

Innehållsförteckning

"Appareled in Celestial Light": Transcendent Nature Experiences in Childhood1. Childhood and Nature Design Principles2. Playing, Plotting, and Potatoes: Preschoolers Learning in the Garden3. Taking the Classroom to the Forest: Forest Fridays in Vermont Public School Kindergartens4. Applying the Design Principles in an Urban Early Childhood Center: Innovation at Velma Thomas Early Childhood5. Being Hopeful in Spite of It All: A Return to Nature-based Education6. Forts, Land Trusts, and Conservation Behavior: How Building Forts Leads to Environmental Behavior7. Island Play: Disney World Is Like a Flea Compared to Whitehead8. Valley Quest: Strengthening Community through Educational Treasure Hunts9. Look, Don't Touch: The Problem with Environmental Education10. Swimming Upstream against the Current: Changing the School Improvement Paradigm11. Global Climate Change Meets Ecophobia: Developmentally Appropriate Climate Education12. Place-based Education in Guilford, Vermont, 2005: Teaching Locally, Understanding Globally13. Place-based Education in Guilford, Vermont, 2020: Still Going StrongFinding the Good in the Pandemic: Reviving the Nature Study Movement