David Sobel

Childhood and Nature (eBook, ePUB)

Design Principles for Educators

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 insights to David Sobel's foundational exploration of place-based education.

Sobel articulates seven design principles that teachers can use to build learning experiences: special places, hunting and gathering, maps and paths, small worlds, animal allies, adventure, and fantasy. 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.

An actionable, timely 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501778551
• Artikelnr.: 73334835

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

"Appareled in Celestial Light": Transcendent Nature Experiences in
Childhood
1. Childhood and Nature Design Principles
2. Playing, Plotting, and Potatoes: Preschoolers Learning in the Garden
3. Taking the Classroom to the Forest: Forest Fridays in Vermont Public
School Kindergartens
4. Applying the Design Principles in an Urban Early Childhood Center:
Innovation at Velma Thomas Early Childhood
5. Being Hopeful in Spite of It All: A Return to Nature-based Education
6. Forts, Land Trusts, and Conservation Behavior: How Building Forts Leads
to Environmental Behavior
7. Island Play: Disney World Is Like a Flea Compared to Whitehead
8. Valley Quest: Strengthening Community through Educational Treasure Hunts
9. Look, Don't Touch: The Problem with Environmental Education
10. Swimming Upstream against the Current: Changing the School Improvement
Paradigm
11. Global Climate Change Meets Ecophobia: Developmentally Appropriate
Climate Education
12. Place-based Education in Guilford, Vermont, 2005: Teaching Locally,
Understanding Globally
13. Place-based Education in Guilford, Vermont, 2020: Still Going Strong
Finding the Good in the Pandemic: Reviving the Nature Study Movement