Childhood and Nature 2/e

"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

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.