{"id":583,"date":"2012-11-29T15:50:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T15:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/?p=583"},"modified":"2012-11-29T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T21:28:13","slug":"nature-declines-in-kids-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/nature-declines-in-kids-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Declines in Kids\u2019 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The built environment is crowding out nature in award-winning children\u2019s picture books, consistent with a growing isolation from the natural world, suggests a study led by UNL sociology professor emeritus J. Allen Williams Jr. The study examined nearly 300 children\u2019s books that won or received the Caldecott Medal from 1938 through 2008. Beginning in the mid-1970s, the number of illustrations depicting nature and animals has declined steadily as images of the built environment have increased. The decline suggests today\u2019s children aren\u2019t being socialized toward understanding and appreciating the natural world and their place within it. The study was published in the journal <em>Sociological Inquiry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The built environment is crowding out nature in award-winning children\u2019s picture books, consistent with a growing isolation from the natural world, suggests a study led by UNL sociology professor emeritus J. Allen Williams Jr. The study examined nearly 300 children\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/nature-declines-in-kids-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[487,488,391,489,393],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-highlights","tag-childrens-books","tag-environment","tag-j-allen-williams-jr","tag-natural-world","tag-sociological-inquiry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}