The Indoor Epidemic: How Parents, Teachers, and Kids Can Start an Outdoor Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (574 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1475825900 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Furthermore, it serves as a guide to parents who are seeking to understand how to utilize the natural pathways to learning—simply by getting children outside.. The Indoor Epidemic is an accessible, readable book that educators, parents, policymakers, and general readers can use to develop an in-depth understanding of the role the outdoors has played in our evolutionary and cultural history—and how it affects their own daily life. It’s the story of what we know is right for our children, and yet what we deny them because of the imagined importance and fabricated effectiveness of indoor schooling.The book’s readability, and its emphasis on practicality, will deeply engage readers. Readers will be astounded by the depth to which a sedentary, indoor lifestyle has negatively affected their ability to live a fulfilling life.But it’s also a story, the story of our connection with the world, its inhabitants, and our own relationship with nature
(Paul W. (Rolf Potts, Travel Writer, author of “Vagabonding” and “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There”)In an era of standards based education within a technology-obsessed culture, Erik Shonstrom reminds us of the educational value that lies just beyond our classroom cages in our own backyards and beyond. The book provides an alternative and stimulating view of education.In the Indoor Epidemic, Shonstrom has reminded us of a basic truth that every traveler knows: learning occurs through experience, and the best experiences are those that happen when we venture out into the wide world. I didn't agree with every opinion in the book, but the Indoor Epidemic definitely challenged my ideas of traditional education and made me rethink my beliefs. Illuminating, wide-ranging, and inquisitive, The Indoor Epidemic reads like a long, lively conversation with an
He lives in Vermont with his family. Erik has spent twenty years in education, much of it either exploring the outdoors or escaping the indoors. erikshonstrom. Erik Shonstrom is the author of Wild Curiosity: how to unleash creativity and encourage lifelong wondering and a professor of rhetoric and interdisciplinary studies at Champlain College