Название:The Nature of Childhood. An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865
Автор: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Издательство: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas,
Год: 2014
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 289
Для сайта: litgu.ruРазмер: 40 MB
Язык: English
When did the kid who strolled the wooded path, trolled the stream, played pick-up ball in the back forty turn into the child confined to the mall and the computer screen? How did "Go out and play!" go from parental shooing to prescription? When did parents become afraid to send their children outdoors? Surveying the landscape of childhood from the Civil War to our own day, this environmental history of growing up in America asks why and how the nation's children have moved indoors, often losing touch with nature in the process.In the time the book covers, the nation that once lived in the country has migrated to the city, a move whose implications and ramifications for youth Pamela Riney-Kehrberg explores in chapters concerning children's adaptation to an increasingly urban and sometimes perilous environment. Her focus is largely on the Midwest and Great Plains, where the response of families to profound economic and social changes can be traced through its urban, suburban, and rural permutations—as summer camps, scouting, and nature education take the place of children's unmediated experience of the natural world.
