Full Description
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.
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
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