Stavreva Veselinovska, Snezana (2009) Why children need nature and nature needs children. Curriculums of the early and compulsory education, 1 (1). pp. 455-466. ISSN 978-953-7210-24-3
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Abstract
Th e lives of children have radically changed over the past few years. Children have little free time. Their lives are structured, organized, and timed nearly to the minute. Today’s children are less connected to the natural world than at any other time in history. No longer free time is spent outdoors, in the nature. A growing body of research has demonstrated that the natural world holds numerous benefits for children and adults. While it is still mysterious just how the mind, body and spirit gain from exposure to and experiences with nature, empirical evidence forces us to reexamine and rethink the lives of today’s children. Th is natural connection has been replaced in various ways – greater interaction with the digital (‘plugged-in’) world, less unstructured outdoor play, and via growing urbanization. Th is decreased exposure to nature has consequences that we are just beginning to understand. Research across disciplines now suggests that this is connect (both figurative and literal) has far-reaching consequences for the health and well-being of both individuals and the natural environment in which
they act. Children are smarter, cooperative, happier and healthier when they have frequent and varied opportunities for free and unstructured play in the outdoors.
In this paper we represent the results from research made on children from 3-7 years old age in kindergartens in urban and rural environment. Results are statistically processed from which the results obtained give us the conclusion
about the connection of the children with the natural environment.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | children, nature, natural world, natural connection, kindergartens. |
| Subjects: | Natural sciences > Earth and related environmental sciences |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Educational Science |
| Depositing User: | Snezana Stavrova Veselinova |
| Date Deposited: | 28 May 2014 07:41 |
| Last Modified: | 28 May 2014 07:41 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/9997 |
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