Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder, Richard Louv

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Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder, Richard Louv

Title remainder

saving our children from nature-deficit disorder

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Richard Louv

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• trueLast child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder

Publication

• Chapel Hill, N.C., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008

Note

Original ed.: 2005

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-332) and index

Contents

pt. I: The new relationship between children and nature. Gifts of nature -- The third frontier -- The criminalization of natural play -- pt. II: Why the young (and the rest of us) need nature. Climbing the tree of health -- A life of the senses : nature vs. the know-it-all state of mind -- The "eighth intelligence" -- The genius of childhood : how nature nurtures creativity -- Nature-deficit disorder and the restorative environment -- pt. III: The best of intentions: why Johnnie and Jeannie don't play outside anymore. Time and fear -- The bogeyman syndrome redux -- Don't know much about natural history : education as a barrier to nature -- Where will future stewards of nature come from? -- pt. IV: The nature-child reunion. Bringing nature home -- Scared smart : facing the bogeyman -- Telling turtle tales : using nature as a moral teacher -- pt. V: The jungle blackboard. Natural school reform -- Camp revival -- pt. VI: Wonder land : opening the fourth frontier. The education of Judge Thatcher : decriminalizing natural play -- Cities gone wild -- Where the wild things will be : a new back-to-the-land movement -- pt. VII: To be amazed. The spiritual necessity of nature for the young -- Fire and fermentation : building a movement -- While it lasts -- Notes -- Suggested reading -- Index -- Field guide to Last Child in the Woods including '100 actions we can take'

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000042474494

Dimensions

22 cm.

Edition

Updated and expanded.

Extent

xii, 390 p.

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regular print reproduction

Isbn

9781565126053

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(pbk.)

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2007049665

Record ID

u104169

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(OCoLC)183879632