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The Appalachian trail: an environmental classroom.
Abstract
Given recent observations about the detrimental effects of alienating children from nature, there should be a similar concern for addressing such effects in college students. "The Literature and Cultures of the Appalachian Trail" is a course that blends work inside in the classroom and outside on the trail as an answer to the effects of what Richard Louv has labeled "nature deficit."
"We 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 ...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Lefty Kreh August 22, 1986 700+ words
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- Press release article from: Business Wire July 1, 2005 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 6, 1989 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 31, 2004 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) January 7, 2003 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) August 6, 2007 700+ words
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- Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 31, 1987 700+ words
...Y / WHAT: 50th Anniversary Appalachian Trail FOR: Metro Atlanta, Northwest...Department of the Interior, Georgia Appalachian Trail Club, Chattahoochee National...Espy (2nd thru-hiker of the Appalachian Trail), Blue Ridge Mountain Sports...
- APPALACHIAN TRAIL: 50 YEARS, 2,099 MILES PARK SERVICE HAS EYE ON MAINE MOUNTAIN
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe John Ellement, Globe Staff August 16, 1987 700+ words
...with 91 percent of the trail, which stretches from...mile strip of the trail along Saddleback's...going to be lifts and trails nearby." The Park...four choices for the trail. A public comment period...Dave Field, a Maine Appalachian Trail Club historian, said...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Appalachian trail: an environmental classroom.