Indoor Epidemic (eBook)

How Parents, Teachers, and Kids Can Start an Outdoor Revolution

Erik Shonstrom (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
174 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2592-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Using groundbreaking research and diverse interdisciplinary evidence, The Indoor Epidemic explores what we’ve lost with the great migration indoors, and how it affects our schools, our children, and ourselves.

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The Indoor Epidemic is an accessible, readable book that educators, parents, policymakers, and general readers can use to develop an in-depth understanding of the role the outdoors has played in our evolutionary and cultural historyand how it affects their own daily life. Readers will be astounded by the depth to which a sedentary, indoor lifestyle has negatively affected their ability to live a fulfilling life.But it's also a story, the story of our connection with the world, its inhabitants, and our own relationship with nature. It's the story of what we know is right for our children, and yet what we deny them because of the imagined importance and fabricated effectiveness of indoor schooling.The book's readability, and its emphasis on practicality, will deeply engage readers. Furthermore, it serves as a guide to parents who are seeking to understand how to utilize the natural pathways to learningsimply by getting children outside.

Autor

Erik Shonstrom is the author of Wild Curiosity: how to unleash creativity and encourage lifelong wondering and a professor of rhetoric and interdisciplinary studies at Champlain College. Erik has spent twenty years in education, much of it either exploring the outdoors or escaping the indoors. He lives in Vermont with his family. www.erikshonstrom.com

Inhalt

ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Curse of the Corner OfficeChapter 2: PaleoeducationChapter 3: Feral PsychologyChapter 4: The Outdoor BodyChapter 5: Reading the WildChapter 6: Outside the InboxChapter 7: HumanimalChapter 8: Are You Experienced?Chapter 9: The Right to Outdoor PlayChapter 10: Enkidu’s LamentConclusion: The Outdoor Nation ProclamationWorks CitedAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Green Living
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-2592-7 / 1475825927
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-2592-3 / 9781475825923