Nature Deficit Syndrome

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With the term nature deficit disorder ( English nature deficit disorder , dt Literally. Nature Deficit Disorder ) is coming from the research from the United States, the phenomenon of an increasing alienation from nature referred to: the lack of knowledge and the non-multi- Experience natural rhythms and appearances as well as the consequences of this alienation, especially for children and young people and their development, but also for adults and society.

Examples

When examining a drawing competition in which 30% of the 40,000 participating children in Bavaria in the mid-1990s colored a cow based on the model of the so-called lilac cow in the color lilac, sociologists came to the conclusion that

“That children and young people idealize nature into an idyllic, harmonious parallel world in which humans have no business. Planting trees is good, cutting trees is bad, and the hunter is a murderer anyway. "

The researchers also called this result Bambi syndrome .

In this context, 7% of the children surveyed believed that ducks were yellow in 1997, compared to 11% in 2003.

literature

  • Matt Cartmill: Bambi Syndrome. Passion for hunting and misanthropy in cultural history. (Original title: A View to a death in the Morning .) Translated by Hans-Ulrich Möhring . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-55566-2 .
  • Rainer Brämer: Nature is obscure. How young people experience nature today. Oekom, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-86581-037-3 .
  • Ulrich Gebhard: Child and Nature. The importance of nature for psychological development. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16338-3 .
  • Richard Louv: Last Child in the Woods. Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Paperback, Atlantic Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-56512-605-3 .
  • Herbert Österreicher: Basic knowledge of nature and environmental education: for initial socio-educational training. Bildungsverlag Eins, Troisdorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-427-04158-0 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Brämer, Das Bambi Syndrome (PDF file; 62 kB) , Marburg, 1998 (accessed December 29, 2012)
  2. ↑ Andrea Kreutz, Bambi Syndrome , Die Zeit , May 15, 2007, (accessed December 29, 2012)
  3. ^ Rainer Brämer, Alienation from Nature? (PDF; 125 kB), 2008 (accessed December 29, 2012)

Web links

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