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This digest highlights the need for beginning environmental education based on life experiences during the very earliest years of life. The rationale for environmental education during the early childhood years is discus...
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Explores the extent to which current professional education literature is publishing material on environmental education in the school curriculum. Results indicate that readers will not readily find information on how to...
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Suggests that the outdoor environment is often quite separate from "out of doors" in early childhood classrooms and is seldom used to teach about the environment. Provides guidelines and suggestions for learning centers ...
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Argues that goals of early education programs should be environmentally, as well as developmentally, appropriate. Lists guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong attitude of environmental awareness and care. (ET...
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Discusses the value of nature education to early childhood education. The domains of adaptive, aesthetic, cognitive, communication, sensorimotor, and socioemotional development are discussed. Suggests that because young ...
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This paper presents a description of Natural Beginnings, an early childhood environmental education teacher inservice workshop. The purpose, content, and format of the workshop are discussed, as are evaluation results. E...
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The purpose of this publication is to establish a rationale for early childhood environmental education and to offer some guidelines and suggestions for planning and implementing developmentally appropriate environmental...
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Introduces a new column on environmental education and discusses the importance of such education at the early childhood level. Presents an overview of an approach to environmental education that is designed to foster po...
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This article argues for integrating outdoor or environmental education into the special education curriculum. It discusses the definition and philosophy of outdoor education and notes similarities between outdoor educati...
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Discusses guidelines to provide developmentally appropriate environmental education experiences for young children. Guidelines include (1) keeping children actively involved; (2) beginning with simple experiences; (3) en...
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Developed a "Fostering a Love of Nature Index" to provide "best practice" guidelines for planning, implementing, and evaluating environmental education programs for young children. Research used in developing this index ...