Childhood and Nature: Design Principles for Educators

by David Sobel

Stenhouse Publishers · 2008

David Sobel's Childhood and Nature presents eight design principles for nature-based education: adventure, fantasy, animal allies, maps and paths, special places, small worlds, hunting and gathering, and fantasy. Drawing on research in developmental psychology and his own decades working with schools, Sobel argues that ecological education must be rooted in local, joyful engagement before it can address global issues.