Vatic Note: Just another way to socially engineer our children into never ever wanting to explore and experience the outdoors. Now why is that? Because you do not let cattle go wandering off willy nilly. No, you keep them corralled into barns, and fenced fields so they only do what they are suppose to do as assets... produce and then die and do not have a life of any kind. Nice new world order we have here, huh? The best chance we have at stopping all this, is for the states and local governments to take back control of the schools in concert with the parents. Its how it used to be with local financing rather than the money going to the feds. We were 2nd in the world in education when we did that. Now under the feds we are 39th. This is suggesting no more field trips for the children in their education process....rather more school time spent on sex education. Perverts. When they legalize pedophilia, that is when you will know they have assumed complete control over our children and that the Satanists have won. We are doggone close to that now. How do we know? Of all the bankers (1200) that have resigned, not a single one has been arrested or charged with anything, so there is another reason for their resigning? Could it be a complete revamping of the banking system and thus a new role for them all or are they going underground. I ask because these are the ones who are determining what is published in these school books since they own most of the publishing companies.
Where the wild things aren’t? Nature vanishing from kids’ books, study finds ............
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/120223_nature.htm
Feb. 23, 2012
Courtesy of University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and World Science staff
Courtesy of University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and World Science staff
An alarming trend noted in past
research—that Americans are losing their connection with nature—is also
strikingly evident in respected children’s books. So says a group of
researchers who examined images in nearly 300 award-winning children’s
books published from 1938 through 2008.
“Natural environments have
all but disappeared,” wrote University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociology
professor emeritus J. Allen Williams Jr., and colleagues, reporting
their findings in the journal Sociological Inquiry. The books
they assessed were all winners or honor recipients of the prestigious
Caldecott Medal for children’s books.
Scientists reported in
2008 that Americans and possibly people around the world are spending
less and less time on outdoor activities, a trend that some worry will lead
to declining global health, diminishing interest in nature and
faltering commitment to environmental protection. Williams’ study
doesn’t say this previously identified trend influenced what is
happening in books, but it does note that a steady increase in built
environments and decline in natural ones are consistent with this
development.
“I am concerned that this lack of contact may result
in caring less about the natural world, less empathy for what is
happening to other species and less understanding of many significant
environmental problems,” Williams said.
Williams and colleagues
looked at whether book illustrations depicted a natural environment,
such as a jungle or a forest; a built environment, such as a house, a school
or an office; or something in-between, such as a mowed lawn. They also
noted whether any animals were in the pictures—and if so, if those
creatures were wild, domesticated or took on human
qualities.
Overall, they found that built environments were
depicted in 58 percent of the images and were the major environment 45
percent of the time, while natural environments appeared in 46 percent
of the images and were the major environment 32 percent of the time. But
while built and natural environments were almost equally likely to be
shown from the late 1930s until the 1960s, cities and towns and the indoors
started to increase at the expense of nature in the mid-1970s.
While
the study was limited to Caldecott awardees, the researchers said the
findings are important because the award leads to strong sales and the
honorees are featured in schools and libraries. Caldecott winners also
can influence tastes for children’s literature more generally.
Caldecott awardees are the children’s books judged by the American Library
Association to have the best illustrations in a given year.
The
study “does suggest that the current generation of young children
listening to the stories and looking at the images in children’s books are
not being socialized, at least through this source, toward greater
understanding and appreciation of the natural world and the place of
humans within it,” the authors wrote.
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