FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W18449321> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W18449321 endingPage "225" @default.
• W18449321 startingPage "221" @default.
• W18449321 abstract "Abstract Given recent observations about the detrimental effects of alienating from nature, there should be a similar concern for addressing such effects in college students. Literature and Cultures of the Appalachian is a course that blends work inside in the classroom and outside on the trail as answer to the effects of what Richard Louv has labeled nature deficit. do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. Henry David Thoreau, Natural History of Massachusetts Introduction With all of the recent attention on the possible social effects of the alienation of from nature, one wonders about the ways in which such alienation may affect university students. More than half a century ago, Aldo Leopold, in proposing his Land Ethic, suggested that perhaps the most serious impediment to the evolution of such ethic is that educational and economic system is headed away from rather than toward, intense consciousness of the land (223-224). Recently, Lowell Monke, a former teacher of computer skills to elementary school children, critiqued the computer for inhibiting our ability as humans to learn from the nonhuman world. Monke writes that Western pedagogy has always favored abstract knowledge over experiential learning. Even relying on books too much too early inhibits the ability of to develop direct relationships with the subjects they are studying. But because of their power, computers drastically exacerbate this tendency, leading us to believe that vivid images, massive amounts of information, and even online conversations with experts provide adequate substitute for conversing with the things themselves. (28) Maybe the most noticed of recent work highlighting the potential deleterious effects of sequestering our in front of computers or televisions is Richard Louv's. He writes that in a society that imposes on its an artificial environment for which they have not evolved, eventually children and adults alike would suffer from what might be called nature-deficit disorder, not in a clinical sense, but as a condition caused by the cumulative human costs of alienation from nature, including diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses (71). Louv suggests the possibility that not only but adults as well may suffer in significant ways from the changes our electronic technology has occasioned in the way we learn. His observations seem important to me because universities by and large don't require that graduating students be ecologically literate. We don't require our graduates to know anything about the environment where they live and attend classes, nor do we ask them to be familiar with environmental laws that protect the air and water we all depend on for life. In my own classes I have asked my young-adult students not to use CD players and cell phones on various outings associated with their coursework, since being out in the woods, even for only part of a day, gives them the chance to listen to natural sounds rather than the buzz and hum and roar that surrounds them the rest of the time. I was amazed to discover the predominance of the I-Pod on a weeklong kayaking trip with students last spring, and I am concerned about all of the students--a vast majority of those in my classes--who are hooked into recorded music or cell phones more than they are to their own thoughts. How can students care about a world that they walk through tied to technologies that distract them from that world? And how should such a concern influence the ways we approach the task of teaching our students, even in disciplines that seem more focused on culture than nature? The Plan of the Course I grew up in Washington County, Maryland, where the Appalachian Trail follows the county's eastern boundary as it snakes along a ridge known as South Mountain, so the Trail has occupied a small corner of my consciousness for most of my life. …" @default.
• W18449321 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W18449321 creator A5059244424 @default.
• W18449321 date "2006-06-22" @default.
• W18449321 modified "2023-09-24" @default.
• W18449321 title "The Appalachian Trail: An Environmental Classroom" @default.
• W18449321 hasPublicationYear "2006" @default.
• W18449321 type Work @default.
• W18449321 sameAs 18449321 @default.
• W18449321 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W18449321 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W18449321 hasAuthorship W18449321A5059244424 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C107038049 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C121332964 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C15744967 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C163258240 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C171773132 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C19417346 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C2776035688 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C2779115301 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C46312422 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C62520636 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C77805123 @default.
• W18449321 hasConcept C95124753 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C107038049 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C121332964 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C138885662 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C144024400 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C15744967 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C163258240 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C171773132 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C17744445 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C19417346 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C199539241 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C2776035688 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C2779115301 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C46312422 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C62520636 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C77805123 @default.
• W18449321 hasConceptScore W18449321C95124753 @default.
• W18449321 hasIssue "2" @default.
• W18449321 hasLocation W184493211 @default.
• W18449321 hasOpenAccess W18449321 @default.
• W18449321 hasPrimaryLocation W184493211 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W1583621757 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W1814673 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W1982349966 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W2032449800 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W204648279 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W2050988305 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W2096666168 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W2097586698 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W2136173989 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W2203270841 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W2335478607 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W238951104 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W264423888 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W287869665 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W3046969361 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W324541925 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W347508331 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W92534694 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W62521973 @default.
• W18449321 hasRelatedWork W82041383 @default.
• W18449321 hasVolume "10" @default.
• W18449321 isParatext "false" @default.
• W18449321 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W18449321 magId "18449321" @default.
• W18449321 workType "article" @default.