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The geography of childhood : why children need wild places, Gary Paul Nabhan, Stephen Trimble ; photographs by Stephen Trimble

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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
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eng
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1 online resource (xxv, 184 pages
Contents
  • 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
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The geography of childhood : why children need wild places
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The geography of childhood
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why children need wild places
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Gary Paul Nabhan, Stephen Trimble ; photographs by Stephen Trimble
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Language
eng
Summary
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
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Nabhan, Gary Paul
Dewey number
155.4
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
BF353.5.N37
LC item number
N32 1994
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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1950-
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Trimble, Stephen
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The Concord library
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  • Nature
  • Children and the environment
  • Child rearing
  • Child rearing
  • Children and the environment
  • Nature
  • Milieu
  • Kinderen
  • Pedagogische antropologie
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The geography of childhood : why children need wild places, Gary Paul Nabhan, Stephen Trimble ; photographs by Stephen Trimble
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184)
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volume
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nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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txt
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rdacontent
Contents
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
Extent
1 online resource (xxv, 184 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
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rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1033644021
Label
The geography of childhood : why children need wild places, Gary Paul Nabhan, Stephen Trimble ; photographs by Stephen Trimble
Link
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Extent
1 online resource (xxv, 184 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1033644021

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