First Advisor

Barbara Brower

Term of Graduation

Winter 2022

Date of Publication

3-8-2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.) in Geography

Department

Geography

Language

English

Subjects

Children and the environment -- Nepal -- Udaipur, Environmental education -- Nepal -- Udaipur, Space perception in children

DOI

10.15760/etd.7802

Physical Description

1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages)

Abstract

This qualitative research, conducted over three months from late monsoon season into early fall of 2018 with twenty-six children and thirteen adults, explores how children in the hills of Rautamai Gaunpalika, Province 1, Nepal come to know their local environment. Semi-structured interviews with children, their family members, and teachers, and participant observation with children as they worked and played in forests, fields, and streams, suggest that outside of school, children come to know their local environment in the following ways: through participation in and application of knowledge to subsistence practices; through collaborative learning and teaching in mixed-age groups; through relationships with animals, insects, plants, and deities; and through embodied and sensory engagements with place. These interviews, along with participant observation at a school, also suggest that while school environmental learning is quite different, it does, in some ways, connect to children's everyday learning about their environment, and that children draw on school environmental learning in ways they find meaningful. This research adds children's experiences and perspectives to scholarship on human-environment relationships in Nepal and the broader Himalayan region, and contributes to discussions on localizing school learning and connecting school learning to children's everyday environmental knowledge in Nepal and beyond.

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Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/37414

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