Indoor Epidemic - How Parents, Teachers, and Kids Can Start an Outdoor Revolution

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. 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. 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. 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.

List of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Curse of the Corner Office
Chapter 2: Paleoeducation
Chapter 3: Feral Psychology
Chapter 4: The Outdoor Body
Chapter 5: Reading the Wild
Chapter 6: Outside the Inbox
Chapter 7: Humanimal
Chapter 8: Are You Experienced?
Chapter 9: The Right to Outdoor Play
Chapter 10: Enkidu's Lament
Conclusion: The Outdoor Nation Proclamation
Works Cited
About the Author

About the author

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. Erik has spent twenty years in education, much of it either exploring the outdoors or escaping the indoors. He lives in Vermont with his family. www.erikshonstrom.com

Summary

Using groundbreaking research and diverse interdisciplinary evidence, The Indoor Epidemic explores what we've lost with the great migration indoors, and how it affects our schools, our children, and ourselves.

Product details

• Authors: Erik Shonstrom, Shonstrom Erik
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2017
• EAN: 9781475825909
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-2590-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; SELF-HELP / Green Lifestyle, NATURE / Reference, EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs, natural history, Popular medicine & health, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Exercise & workout books, Organization & management of education, Green Living, Green lifestyle & self-sufficiency, Educational administration & organization, HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / General, Self-sufficiency & ‘green’ lifestyle, HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy Living & Personal Hygiene