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The absence of wildlife from children’s lives
[…] Developmentalists are just beginning to consider the importance of wilderness and “wildness” in children’s lives. This theoretical and empirical neglect of the “wild” is surprising, for a number of reasons. First, a contextual, systemic approach to the study of children’s development (Fogel, et al., 2008; Melson, 2008) is now widely accepted. Since the publication…
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Skill of skills
The excerpt that follows is taken from Tim Ingold’s book “The Perception of the Enviroment” published by Routledge in London (2000:361). […] For these inhabitants of intermontane valleys, the current of water in a river or stream is as familiar a part of experience as is the motion of the hands in looping. Now it…
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Working in the trenches: the Work That Reconnects in the refugee reception context of Greece
by Tina Lygdopoulou “We never notice them [the flowers]. But children do.” ~A group participant commenting on what it means to see with new eyes. Refugee reception, the humanitarian field and trauma Instead of support, the camp offered dehumanization and perpetuation of and exposure to further trauma. Last year I worked briefly as the child…