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Full-Text Articles in Outdoor Education
Wilderness And Spirituality, Harvey Locke
Wilderness And Spirituality, Harvey Locke
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
On November 19, 1998, Harvey Locke spoke to those in attendance at the 35th Anniversary Dinner for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. His keynote speech, reprinted below with his permission, addressed the need to reach a spiritual understanding of wilderness in the midst of the current environmental crisis. Seven years later, his words are pertinent to the present conversation on nature-deficit disorder.
An Interview With Richard Louv, Michael F. Shaughnessy
An Interview With Richard Louv, Michael F. Shaughnessy
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Richard Louv has written a beautifully provocative book entitled Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Richard Louv believes that nature is an integral part of growing up, and that children need to be exposed to nature, the wilderness, trees, grass, the sky, and the beauty of the earth, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and streams. In this interview, he discusses his book and his concerns.
Review Of Last Child In The Woods, Charles Yaple
Review Of Last Child In The Woods, Charles Yaple
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Louv defines nature-deficit disorder (NDD) as “an alienation from nature” that results in “diminished uses of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses.” In Last Child in the Woods, he demonstrates how it can be observed in individuals, families, and communities. He cites numerous studies that show “a relationship between the absence, or inaccessibility, of parks and open spaces with high crime rates, depression” and other maladies.
Thoreau’S Legacy Revisited, Charles Yaple
Thoreau’S Legacy Revisited, Charles Yaple
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
It appears we humans are slow to learn some lessons. Recent, and greatly deserved, attention given to Richard Louv’s new book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature- Deficit Disorder (see book review, p. 19) prompts one to recall prophetic words penned by Henry David Thoreau more than 140 years ago. He had much to say concerning what happens when a culture divorces itself from nature. The summer, 1995 issue of Taproot featured an article, Thoreau’s Legacy, that examined the 19th century philosopher’s thoughts regarding healthy human relationship with the natural world. That article is presented here …
Resources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Resources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
This section contains a listing of teaching resources of all types for those who work in the outdoor education field at time of publication. Some items highlighted include: the "National Registry of Children’s Gardens" and "The Kids’ Guide to Nature Adventures: 80 Great Activities for Exploring the Outdoors".
Conference Calendar, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Conference Calendar, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
This section provides a list of conferences in the field of outdoor education including AORE (Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education) and AEOE (Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education of California).
Contents, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Contents, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
The Coalition for Education in the Outdoors is a non-profit network of outdoor and environmental education centers, nature centers, conservation and recreation organizations, outdoor education and experiential education associations, institutions of higher learning, public and private schools, fish and wildlife agencies, and businesses that share a mission the support and furtherance of outdoor education and its goals.
Review Of Children And Nature, Josh Bochniak
Review Of Children And Nature, Josh Bochniak
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
There is no lack of resources, activities, books, or articles about children and nature. In fact, the amount of information available is overwhelming, Advocates for the importance of nature to children continue to declare the emotional, physical, intellectual, and moral developmental benefits of nature for children, but as Kahn and Kellert propose, “our scientific knowledge of the impact and significance of nature during varying stages of childhood is remarkably sparse.” In that statement lies the major thrust of this edition, Children and Nature. In twelve chapters by a variety of authors from a number of different fields of study, Kahn …
Review Of Noah’S Children, Josh Bochniak
Review Of Noah’S Children, Josh Bochniak
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Sara Stein, in a narrative that elicits emotions as divergent as anger and laughter, approaches the broad idea of what is missing in today’s childhood, and what she perceives is needed for its restoration. Approaching topics such as evolutionary and cultural heritage, natural interaction, and developmental struggles, she places many contemporary social norms in sharp contrast against their historical predecessors.
Practitioner's Corner: How To Be Alone, Joshua Bochniak
Practitioner's Corner: How To Be Alone, Joshua Bochniak
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
The idea of solitude is no stranger to outdoor enthusiasts. Its virtues have been heralded for millennia. Clerics, monks, priests, and laity from numerous religions and cultural traditions have found value in solitude since the beginnings of recorded history. Modern Transcendentalists, most notably Thoreau and Emerson, praised solitude as a means to escape the swelling tide of civilization. Granted, most conscientious proponents of solitude also warn of its excess, but overwhelmingly, the idea of solitude is historically one that pulls at the inner yearnings of the human heart. How is it then that an afternoon’s observation on a university campus …
Review Of The Sandbox, Charles Yaple
Review Of The Sandbox, Charles Yaple
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
The Sandbox is an animated video for children designed to get them thinking about environmental ethics and personal values. It was reviewed during the summer of 2005 by graduate students in Charles Yaple’s Environmental and Outdoor Education course at State University of New York, College at Cortland.
Review Of Good Riddance, Air Pollution, Josh Bochniak
Review Of Good Riddance, Air Pollution, Josh Bochniak
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
GOOD RIDDANCE is a new animated series directed by Nick Hilligoss and produced by the Natural History Unit, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Eco, the “clean, green pest controller with a biological solution to every problem” works through a series of problems from rats and snails to air pollution using environmentally friendly means. This five minute short, “The Eco Van Comes Clean” really begins when Eco’s van and a VW Beetle stuck on the tracks get an untimely redesign by a passing train. He decides to put the front half of the Beetle together with the rear of his van, creating, to …
News Briefs, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
News Briefs, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
This section contains multiple brief news items related to conservation, environment or outdoor education. Some items include: "Winds of Change", an article about wind energy, and "Missing Monarchs", an article about the declining monarch population.
Teaching Green The Middle Years, Rob Andrejewski
Teaching Green The Middle Years, Rob Andrejewski
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
It is in this spirit-one of peer connection, collaboration, and communication- that Teaching Green - The MuJJl.e Years comes to us. Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn, editors of Green Teacher magazine, have culled the best articles pertaining to hands-on environmental education for grades six to eight from their environmental literacy and global awareness magazine. The result is 50 innovative yet practical ideas for environmental education for the middle school years.
Contents, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Contents, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
The Coalition for Education in the Outdoors is a non-profit network of outdoor and environmental education centers, nature centers, conservation and recreation organizations, outdoor education and experiential education associations, institutions of higher learning, public and private schools, fish and wildlife agencies, and businesses that share a mission the support and furtherance of outdoor education and its goals.
Keepers Of The Earth, Jeannette Armstrong
Keepers Of The Earth, Jeannette Armstrong
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
I have always felt that my Okanagan view is perhaps closer in experience to that of an eyewitness and refugee surrounded by holocaust. I draw on this experience of witness to frame my own comments on a social crisis that has been interpreted in various fields of study as critical. As a Native American, I have felt that crisis as a personal struggle against an utterly pervasive phenomenon. My conflict has been to unremittingly resist its entrapment, while knowing that it affects every breath I draw. Through the lens of that perspective, I view the disorder that is displayed in …
The Obligation To Endure Again, Sandra Steingraber
The Obligation To Endure Again, Sandra Steingraber
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
The author of this letter was a young biologist named Rachel Carson. Carson could not have known, when she penned it, how profound an impact her short letter would have. The Associated Press picked it up for syndication. The Reader's Digest reprinted it. And so her missive found its way onto front porches and breakfast tables, into living rooms and libraries and doctors' office waiting rooms across the nation. At the height of the Cold War, in the midst of an anti-Communist inquisition that had convulsed the federal government, Carson's assertion that "the real wealth of the Nat ion lies …
Review Of Beyond Ecophobia, Beth Bojarski
Review Of Beyond Ecophobia, Beth Bojarski
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Nature loving and back yard exploration could easily be chalked up to the responsibility of parents (alongside respect, tolerance and sharing) while classrooms examine the lifecycle of a butterfly or the names of rainforest birds. However, the truth is that teachers and parents alike have the extraordinary opportunity to share with children just how intricate and incredible Mother Earth is ... before overwhelming them with the perils of our environmental crisis.
Astronomy For Your Whole Family, Larry Klaes
Astronomy For Your Whole Family, Larry Klaes
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Astronomy for Your Whole Family, Part I (found in the last issue of Taproot) concluded with a discussion of two of the most well-known star patterns as seen from Earth's northern hemisphere: the Big and Little Dippers. Not only are they among the most recognized collections of stars in our night sky, they also serve the important function of marking the direction of true north from the heavens.
Review Of Places Of Power, Jennifer Bradley
Review Of Places Of Power, Jennifer Bradley
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
It is not unusual to find children's books about nature, nor even about the responsibility people have towards the natural world; however, to find a picture book that convincingly explores this from the place of mutual communion and spiritual connection is indeed rare. In Places of Power, author Michael DeMunn draws from his Native American heritage to share his belief that within the natural world there are places of power that connect to places deep within each of us, places that are powerful because they are where the Creator speaks to us in a way that only we can understand.
Resources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Resources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
This section contains a listing of teaching resources of all types for those who work in the outdoor education field at the time of publication. Some items highlighted include: "Project NatureConnect" and "Reconnecting with Nature: Finding wellness through restoring your bond with the Earth" By Michael Cohen.
Professional Opportunities, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Professional Opportunities, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
This section included numerous opportunities for professional development related to outdoor education and environmental or conservation education. Some of the options included the "Global Change Institute" and the "Society for Human Ecology".
Conference Calendar, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Conference Calendar, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
This section provides a list of conferences in the field of outdoor education including the Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario and NIRI (National Institute of Recreation Inclusion).
Practitioner's Corner Strengthening Natural Senses, Michael Cohen
Practitioner's Corner Strengthening Natural Senses, Michael Cohen
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
"Us is the united wholeness, wisdom and spirit of the natural world and our true inner nature. Acknowledgement of Us results in living more harmoniously with the living land, waters and life-spirit within and about us ... we enjoy peace with the whole of nature found in ourselves, others and the landscape."
From The Editor, Charles Yaple
From The Editor, Charles Yaple
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Using ecopsychology as a theme, this issue of Taproot rightfully begins with a salute to Michael Cohen. Janet Thomas provides readers with a well-written overview of Michael's life and work in On All Nine Legs - Teaching Outdoor Love to an Indoor World. Like Cohen, Jeannette Armstrong sees a form of insanity that grips modern cultures-a sickness that can only be cured by reconnecting with the natural world that nurtures us. As a Native American (Okanagan), Armstrong provides an outsiders view of the "wild and insane" lifestyles lived by humans in a consumer- oriented world. In Keepers of the Earth, …
Review Of Psychology And Environmental Change, Charles Yaple
Review Of Psychology And Environmental Change, Charles Yaple
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
The good news, according to author Raymond Nickerson, is that "psychology has much to contribute to solving the problem of detrimental environmental change." The bad news is the problem of environmental change is not high on "the priority list for the psychological research community as a whole." Operating from those statements, readers of Psychology and Environmental Change, should not expect to walk away with tried and true methods for altering human behaviors contributing to environmental degradation. However, that does not mean Dr. Nickerson's book is unworthy of purchase and thorough reading.
On All Nine Legs, Janet Thomas
On All Nine Legs, Janet Thomas
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Although we are part of nature, most of us learn to spend on average over 95 percent of our time and 99 percent of our thinking separated from and out of tune with nature's beauty, balance, healing, sustainability and restorative powers. According to Cohen, this is a profound loss that traumatizes us into denial. We deny that we are rewarded by our daily indoor lives for fearing and exploiting, rather than embracing and learning from nature. We deny that we are psychologically addicted to nature- disconnected lives that produce personal, social and environmental dysfunction.
Review Of Biological Time, Beth Bojarski
Review Of Biological Time, Beth Bojarski
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Biological time describes the "natural lifecycles and events of organisms dictated by the presence or absence of light . . . [it is a] unifying theory, linking the timing of ancient calendars with modern scientific research and historical records that show how the natural world is marching to a drumbeat that we are just now learning how to hear."
Review Of Clearing Magazine, Beth Bojarski
Review Of Clearing Magazine, Beth Bojarski
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
At first glance, Clearing Magazine could be passed off as a publication specific to Northwestern North America as one grazes through the upcoming news and events that focus on clinics and conferences in California, Idaho and Washington. However, a deeper look conveys substantial contributions to the environmental education field on all levels and locations. Topics covered range from practical to extremely thought provoking and inspiring.
Review Of Including Youth With Disabilities In Outdoor Programs, Lynn Anderson
Review Of Including Youth With Disabilities In Outdoor Programs, Lynn Anderson
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
In a culture driven by accountability and measurable outcomes, Including Youth with Disabilities in Outdoor Programs, should be well received. The book, based on the results of the three-year National Inclusive Camp Practice study, presents evidence-based practices that will help professionals include youth of all abilities in their camp programs.