By Peter H. Kahn Jr.
Winner of exceptional publication Award, 2000, ethical improvement and schooling, American academic examine organization. Winner of the 2000 booklet Award from the ethical improvement & schooling workforce of the yank academic examine organization pressing environmental difficulties demand lively examine and idea on how people enhance a dating with nature. In a chain of unique examine initiatives, Peter Kahn solutions this name. For the prior 8 years, Kahn has studied young children, teenagers, and oldsters in assorted geographical destinations, starting from an economically impoverished black group in Houston to a distant village within the Brazilian Amazon. In those reviews Kahn seeks solutions to the subsequent questions: How do humans price nature, and the way do they cause morally approximately environmental degradation? Do teenagers have a deep connection to the flora and fauna that will get severed via smooth society? Or do such connections emerge, if in any respect, later in lifestyles, with elevated cognitive and ethical adulthood? How does tradition impact environmental commitments and sensibilities? Are there common positive factors within the human courting with nature? Kahn's empirical and theoretical findings draw on present paintings in psychology, biology, environmental habit, schooling, coverage, and ethical improvement. This scholarly but available ebook could be of worth to practitioners within the social technology and environmental fields, in addition to to expert generalists attracted to environmental concerns and youngsters.
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They are interested in purchasing a Woodmizer, a portable mill with which we could cut our own timber into lumber. They know I like to sink my chain saw into logs, and feel its bite, and transform nature into something for human use: a barn, firewood, furniture. "Think what you could do with a Woodmizer," they say. That is the scary part, for the same impetus by which I use nature in seemingly wholesome ways can lead me to walk our land and see not trees but lumber, and not meadows but housing sites.
Rheta DeVries heartened my scholarly pursuits. James L. Jarrett provided breath and vigor. Elliot Turiel grounded my scholarship, and continues to guide, sometimes by what he does not say, always by example. In each of the five empirical studies reported in this book, I have benefited greatly from the collaboration of colleagues and students alike. I would like here to mention the contributions of specific individuals, and to offer them my heartfelt thanks. Batya Friedman was my colleague. Ann McCoy assisted with data collection, and Tracey Hardman and Daniel Howe assisted with analysis and coding.
Probably no society has been so deeply alienated as ours from the community of nature, has viewed the natural world from a greater distance of mind, has lapsed to a murkier comprehension of its connections with the sustaining environment. Because of this, we are greatly disadvantaged in our efforts to understand the basic human affinity for nonhuman life. Here again, I believe it's essential that we learn from traditional societies, especially those in which most people experience daily and intimate contact with land.