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Cameron-Faulkner, T, MacDonald, R, Serratrice, L, Melville, J and Gattis, M (2017) Plant yourself where language blooms: Direct experience of nature changes how parents and children talk about nature. Children, Youth and Environments, 27 (2). pp. 110-124. ISSN 1546-2250
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Abstract
The current study investigated the affordances of direct and indirect experience of nature on parent-child talk. Parents and children produced a wider range of nature words when exploring a park (direct experience) than when exploring a thematically matched indoor visitor center (indirect experience). Parents and children also produced more plant-related nature word types when exploring the park compared to the visitor center. Findings suggest that direct experience of nature increases the diversity and specificity of parent-child talk about nature, and mitigates the phenomenon of “plant blindness” (cf. Wandersee & Schussler, 1999). Direct experience of nature provides an optimal context for children to learn the language of nature and consequently to cultivate children's status as custodians of the natural world.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1604 Human Geography, 1205 Urban and Regional Planning |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Psychology (from Sep 2019) |
| Publisher: | University of Cincinnati |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2020 08:58 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 07:49 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.7721/chilyoutenvi.27.2.0110 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12351 |
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