Children, nature, and the urban environment: proceedings of a symposium-fair

Abstract

A report on the symposium-fair held 19-23 May, 1975 at the C. H. Marvin Center, the George Washington University, Washington, D.C., containing 33 papers. Sections are devoted to defining the role of natural environments and human development, research on urban children and the natural environment, and community and institutional response to fostering desirable relationships between nature and development of urban children.

Titles contained within Children, nature, and the urban environment: proceedings of a symposium-fair

• Experience and appreciation
• Place and human development
• Comments on "place and human development" by Paul Shepard and Yi-Fu Tuan's "experience and appreciation"
• Children, culture, and Edith Cobb
• On the meanings of "nature"
• The perception of natural vs. built environments by young children
• The urban child: getting ready for failure
• Use and perception of the environment: cultural and developmental processes
• Seeing is being
• Man's nature: innate determinants of response to natural environments
• Learning from the continuities in humanity and nature
• City kids in the absence of. . . .
• Within city limits: nature and children's books about nature in the city
• An analysis of wildlife in children's stories
• Measuring environmental attitudes of elementary school students
• Urban children and nature: a summary of research on camping and outdoor education
• Recreational preferences of urban teenagers: the influence of cultural and environmental attributes
• Observations in public settings
• Children's television: an environmental learning resource?
• A method for observing young children's make-believe play
• The youth conservation corps and adolescents' self-concept
• Urban children in natural environments: a field study in sociobiology
• Developing teachers' awareness of the young urban child's environment
• Green is for growing: the Girl Scout experience with environmental programs
• An outdoor challenge program as a means of enhancing mental health
• Summer outdoor programs: their participants and their effects
• Tranquility and challenge in the natural environment
• Human perspectives in horticulture
• Confronting passive behavior through outdoor experience: a TA approach to experiential learning
• The natural environment and human development: implications for handicapped children in urban settings
• The environmental design of children- nature relations: some strands of applicative theory
• Research needs for programs that provide natural environments for children
• Research priorities in environmental education

Citation

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station 1977. Children, nature, and the urban environment: proceedings of a symposium-fair. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-30. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 261p.