Fri, Oct 21, 2011 8:06 AM in Nature Deficit Children
Hi Kathryn,
I have not read Ishmael so that is the main reason I have not used it in class. I read the synopsis on Wikipedia (I know, I know...) and it looks like an interesting read. I guess I would prefer Leopold over Quinn only because Ishmael is fiction whereas A Sand County Almanac is, I would argue, more of a memoir than anything else. I would put Leopold up there with Thoreau and ...
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Thu, Oct 20, 2011 8:25 PM in Nature Deficit Children
Hi All,
I am just joining the conversation but here is what I have to offer. I am a Knowles Science Teaching Fellow and have presented at our annual all fellows meeting for the last several years about the importance of nature in the development of the human mind. We are raising a generation of humans who are completely disconnected from the natural world, this is very true, but we can chang...
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