Children's Language in Poverty, Children in Nature NEW PUBS

[Keith Nelson]

Hi colleagues.    Herewith info on 2 very different topics and publications.

I.  Children's Language and Poverty

	For anyone interested in the disturbing 
extent of language delays for children in 
poverty, in implications for prevention and 
intervention, and in implications of individual 
differences for language acquisition 
theories--here is a new large study just out. 
Comments, associations, and so on would be very 
much welcomed.

	 Nelson et al., 2011, First Language, 31, 
164-194.  (online also at sage.com)

2.  Children and Nature

	Children's concepts of nature and 
explorations of nature seem badly neglected in 
Child Language, Cognitive Science, and 
Developmental Psychology.   Please send me links 
etc. to any interesting publications you may have 
spotted in these domains.

	Meanwhile, here is a publication that 
explores these topics in non-academic format.

	NEWLY RELEASED BOOK.  If you go to 
Amazon.com you have a chance to read a brand new 
book about Nature and Children.  It is
called, Children, Pelicans, and Planets: Bobcat Magic.

	Surprise, delight, and amazement may 
await you as a reader of these chapters.  In 
addition it is anticipated that in multiple ways 
these stories of Nature exploration will create 
some restlessness in many readers, some itches 
toward actions that increase their own contacts 
with nature and the quantity and quality of their 
children's participation with nature.  Of course, 
you and different readers will enter the book 
with different frames of experience and will 
carry from it varied kinds and degrees of new 
awareness.  Each of you will absorb the many 
reflections offered in these excursions into 
nature and will go beyond them to their own. 
Among the likely impacts of Children, Pelicans, 
and Planets: Bobcat Magic on readers and in turn 
on their friends and children are these--

o	Setting aside more time to enter nature
o	Heightened attention to details in a wide range of contexts
o	New awareness of the potential for the 
seemingly familiar to surprise, reorient, and 
touch us
o	Feeling the threads of how nurturing the 
planet resonates with nurturing our children


	GETTING THE BOOK

	You may read this book on a Kindle or any 
computer or iPad where you have previously 
downloaded the free Kindle App from the 
Amazon.com website.   To find the book on this 
website search by the title within the Kindle 
books section.

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Keith Nelson
Professor of Psychology
Penn State University
414 Moore Building
University Park, PA   16802


keithnelsonart at psu.edu

814 863 1747



And what is mind
and how is it recognized ?
It is clearly drawn
in Sumi  ink, the
sound of breezes drifting through pine.

--Ikkyu Sojun
Japanese Zen Master    1394-1481

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