Significance of Children and Animals: Social Development and Our Connections to Other Species, Second Revised Edition / Edition 2

by Gene Myers

Overview

What role does an animal play in a child's developing sense of self? This book addresses these and other intriguing questions by revealing the interconnected lives of the inhabitants of the preschool classroom with birds, turtles, bugs, and other creatures. This book will be delightful and rewarding for parents, educators, and students of early childhood social development, as well as scholars of the intersection of human experience and the natural environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557534293
Publisher:	Purdue University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2006
Series:	New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gene Myers is Associate Professor at Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University, where he teaches environmental education, conservation psychology, and human ecology, and conducts research on the human dimensions of biodiversity conservation.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the First Edition
I Introduction: The Sense of Connection
II Childhood Animality and Development: Child and Animal in Culture and Theory
III An Ecology of Subjects: Animals and the Child’s Self
IV The Immediate Other: Animate Relating
V The Creature That Connects: Sharing Feelings, Words, and Minds
VI Pretend Play: Self as Human, Self as Animal
VII The Animal in the Cultural Context of Development
VIII Conclusion
Appendix: Methods, Setting, and Subjects
Notes
References
Index