Author : Ming Kuo
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category :
ISBN : 2889631389
Author : Catherine Jordan
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 2832538231
Author : Anne R. Schutte
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030690202
This volume is comprised of contributions to the 67th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which brought together various research disciplines such as psychology, education, health sciences, natural resources, environmental studies to investigate the ways in which nature influences cognition, health, human behavior, and well-being. The symposium is positioned to explore two proposed mechanisms in the most depth: 1) the psycho-evolutionary theory of stress recovery and 2) Attention Restoration Theory. The contributions in the volume represent research guided by both of these posited mechanisms, rigorously examine these theories and processes, and share methodological innovations that can be utilized across programs of research. This volume will be of great interest to researchers on natural environments, practitioners and clinicians working with an environmental lens at the intersection of psychology, social work, education and the health sciences, as well as researchers and students in environmental and conservation psychology. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author : Rolf Jucker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 3031041089
This open access book reviews evidence and case studies on the effects of outdoor learning on teachers and learners. It shows how real-world learning outside the classroom contributes to unlocking the full potential of learners, demonstrating its benefits for academic learning, social competencies, personal and emotional development, psychological well-being, and physical activity and health. In addition, the book highlights how outdoor learning nurtures environmental awareness and helps learners to tackle current sustainability challenges. Its focus on high-quality learning makes it a unique contribution to the implementation of SDG 4. Aimed at lecturers at teacher training universities, teachers, professional educators, coaches, and multipliers who train staff of educational NGOs, as well as decision makers on all levels of education systems, this book is of interest to all those who seek a more in-depth understanding of the future of education.
Author : Liberty Hyde Bailey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1501772635
In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into firsthand contact with the natural world. The aim was simple but revolutionary: sympathy with nature to increase the joy of living and foster stewardship of the earth. With this definitive edition, John Linstrom reintroduces The Nature-Study Idea as an environmental classic for our time. It provides historical context through a wealth of related writings, and introductory essays relate Bailey's vision to current work in education and the intersection of climate change and culture. In this period of planetary turmoil, Bailey's ambition to cultivate wonder (in adults as well as children) and lead readers back into the natural world is more important than ever.
Author : Christos Gallis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1527557901
Forests have diverse values and functions that produce not only material products, but also non-material services. The health functions provided by forests have been used for a very long time, but they have only been emphasized in many fields of society in recent years. The rapid increase in urbanization and the problems of stress, sedentary occupations, and hazardous urban environmental conditions due to modern life may be factors that place great demand on forests’ health functions. Scientific research has shown that there are various psychological and physiological human health benefits of exposure to forests, parks, and green spaces. This collection of papers highlights up-to-date findings and evidence to reveal the beneficial effects of forests on human and public health. The findings provided here can be implemented in practice and policy using forests and nature for human and public health.
Author : Lauren Giordano
Publisher : Quarry Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0760378363
Nature School is your destination for kid-friendly nature learning, where you can explore the natural world through engaging reading, beautiful illustrations, and more than 30 hands-on activities. Kids need a break from screens now more than ever. Screen-free time spent exploring and learning about the outdoors makes for happier, healthier, smarter kids. And playing in nature gives kids confidence and independence, promoting creativity and teaching responsibility. With Nature School, all ages will enjoy connecting with nature and becoming inspired to discover the wild places around them. Travel through five of earth’s largest biomes, studying plants, animals, and their adaptations for survival—and learn hands-on through nature experiments explained in each lesson.From the arid desert to the salty seashore, investigate extraordinary ecosystems, discovering the role of predators and prey and learning about life cycles, climate, landscape, and more. Chapters in this book explore plants, animals, and life cycles of: Temperate Forests Deserts Seashores Grasslands Wetlands Featuring activities and experiments that include: Bark & Leaf Rubbings Desertscape Diorama Salt Dough Seashells Tornado in a Bottle Nature Journaling The whole family will enjoy learning through Nature School!
Author : Elinor Angel
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN :
The goal of the Wilderness Elementary School is to reconnect children and nature. In the last five decades, the shift from most children growing up in a rural setting to suburban and urban settings has disconnected children from the natural world. Children are encouraged to stay inside and use technology and discouraged from exploring outside due to over protectiveness. At the some time, high rates of depression and obesity speak for children's need for the outdoors. An elementary school is a good environment to reconnect children with their natural surroundings. The school is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, on an eighty acre wooded site. The use of natural ventilation, doylighting, exterior learning pavilions, gardens, cisterns and other techniques allow children to understand the interaction of building and site. Children that experience the change of seasons and the passing of a few years on the site will gain a connection to that specific piece of nature and thus gain a sense of stewardship for the natural world.
Author : Cindy Ross
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1510729577
Cindy's story begins in the Rocky Mountain wilderness on a unique and extraordinary journey: two parents leading their young children 3,100 miles on the backs of llamas. This Canada-Mexico trek illustrated to Cindy and her husband what experiential education can do. Inspired by the experience, they went on to create a new way of supplementing their children?s education, focusing on two arenas for learning: the natural world and travel. In this age of world connection, it is important to raise broad-minded and empathetic children who are knowledgeable about other cultures. To accomplish this goal, Cindy chose an unorthodox approach: she orchestrated learning opportunities for her children, Sierra and Bryce, in twelve countries. The family traveled the world, moving about on foot and bicycle, living simply and intimately. But just as important, and more accessible for many parents, were the opportunities for learning closer to home. These adventures brought intangible gifts: values--such as compassion, empathy, resilience, self-reliance, and gratitude, among others--not always fostered in a traditional curriculum but crucially important to raising children. By sharing her story, along with honest insights from her children about the importance of their unusual education, Cindy aims to empower parents to believe they can be their children's best and most important educators. It is for parents who are seeking inspiration, who love a good story, and who are looking for an unorthodox way to raise the happiest, healthiest, and brightest children they can.
Author : Snober Khan
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Children and the environment
ISBN :
We live in a time when much of the natural world is lost in the wake of human agency. No place on earth today remains untouched by human influence. This thesis is an attempt to find wilderness in the Anthropocene. To urbanised people most importantly children, the source of food and the reality of a deeper nature are becoming more abstract. Lacking direct experience with nature, children begin to associate it with fear and catastrophe rather than joy and wonder. Public education is enamored, even mesmerized, by what might be called silicon faith: a myopic focus on high technology as salvation. In the presence of these ideologies, it is imperative that we rethink school nature programs beyond the classroom and field trips. We must deploy natural preserves for a hands-on learning method with schools designed for environmental and ecological education. The Leslie Street Spit, with its abundance of ecological diversity is a befitting location for such an intervention. It exists as a unique form of wilderness in the city of Toronto and an example of anthropogenic character of our contemporary world. It is well suited to serve as an informative playground and education tool for children to discover their environment in its most natural form. Experiential education and nature-based experiences provide individuals of all ages with a unique and powerful opportunity to immerse themselves in the natural world in a constructive and beneficial manner. It allows them to explore several relationships including connections to oneself, connections to others, and connections to the land. These relationships, especially when created at a young age, have the potential to significantly increase personal wellbeing by providing an avenue for healthy development and exploration, fostering interpersonal relationships, and instilling core environmental values. Connecting children and youth to our natural world is therefore essential.
