Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
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pp. 8-11
Abstract
In recent years, some naturalists, teachers, psychologists, and others have grown concerned that children no longer play very much at all in nature, whether inside or outside of school. "American children's freedom for freewheeling play once took place in rural fields, and city streets, using equipment of their own making. Today, play is increasingly confined to back yards, basements, playrooms and bedrooms, and derives much of its content from video games, television dramas and Saturday morning cartoons," explains Brian Sutton Smith of the University of Pennsylvania in Richard Louv's book, Childhood's Future.
Recommended Citation
Will Nixon
(1998)
"Letting Nature Shape Childhood,"
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education: Vol. 11:
Iss.
1998, Article 4.
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https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/taproot/vol11/iss1998/4