The Indoor Epidemic : How Parents, Teachers, and Kids Can Start an Outdoor Revolution

"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."--! From Amazon.com The Indoor Epidemic 1 Contents 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction 14 1 The Curse of the Corner Office 18 2 Paleoeducation 32 3 Feral Psychology 48 4 The Outdoor Body 66 5 Reading the Wild 80 6 Outside the Inbox 94 7 Humanimal 114 8 Are You Experienced? 122 9 The Right to Outdoor Play 134 10 Enkidu’s Lament 144 Conclusion: The Outdoor Nation Proclamation 164 Works Cited 166 About the Author 174 Using groundbreaking research and diverse interdisciplinary evidence, The Indoor Epidemic explores what we've lost with the great migration indoors and how it affects our schools, our children, and ourselves.--COVER