id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 6969z031m96 Jessica Mikels-Carrasco Closer to the ground: Environmental sociology of children 2014 .txt text/plain 321 14 38 These findings point to the need to recognize the legitimacy of child-centered ways of knowing as pathways to engage youth and underscore the need for greater consideration and intentionality in the development of a nuanced pedagogy of humanature interaction in environmental education. The negative impacts of human behavior on the natural environment are increasingly apparent, and while environmental education offers the hope that teaching and engaging young people will lead them on alternative paths in their interactions with the natural world that worthy goal has not come to fruition. cache/6969z031m96.txt txt/6969z031m96.txt