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    Connecting with nature : The effects of organized camp experiences and early-life outdoor experiences on children's environmental consciousness

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    Garner, Margaret Ann
    Abstract
    This study examined how children aged 9 - 14 years, attending two different residential summer camps, responded to questions related to their connection with nature, environmental stewardship, interest in environmental learning and discovery, and knowledge and awareness of environmental and ecological issues (i.e., environmental consciousness). The study also explored the association of early-life experiences in the outdoors with campers' responses related to their environmental consciousness. Both camps were situated in similar, natural outdoor settings, but only one of the camps (designated as Camp A) engaged the children in intentional environmental education programming. The other camp (designated as Camp B) served as a control group, but also provided a setting for studying the effects of participation in a summer camp in a natural outdoor setting without intentional environmental education programming on the campers' environmental consciousness.   Samples of children attending Camp A and Camp B were surveyed before and after their camp experience to determine any changes in their environmental responses from pre- to post-camp experience. Early-life outdoor experiences, as reported by the children in the pre-camp questionnaires, were analyzed to determine associations between levels of early-life outdoor experiences and environmental response scores on both the pre- and post-camp surveys. Results showed that Camp A children's overall scores increased significantly from pre- to post-camp experience, although the scores were significantly higher on only two of the four indices measured. The scores of Camp B children showed no significant increases, either in the aggregate or on any of the four indices individually, from pre- to post camp experience. Higher levels of early-life outdoor experience were associated with significantly higher scores on environmental scales at both camps both pre- and post-camp.  
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3890
    Subject
     Recreation and tourism; Environmental philosophy; Adventure education; Connection with nature; Early-life outdoor experience; Environmental education; Outdoor recreation 
    Date
    2012
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    Garner, Margaret Ann. (January 2012). Connecting with nature : The effects of organized camp experiences and early-life outdoor experiences on children's environmental consciousness (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3890.)

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    Garner, Margaret Ann. Connecting with nature : The effects of organized camp experiences and early-life outdoor experiences on children's environmental consciousness. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, January 2012. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3890. February 24, 2021.
    Chicago:
    Garner, Margaret Ann, “Connecting with nature : The effects of organized camp experiences and early-life outdoor experiences on children's environmental consciousness” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, January 2012).
    AMA:
    Garner, Margaret Ann. Connecting with nature : The effects of organized camp experiences and early-life outdoor experiences on children's environmental consciousness [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; January 2012.
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    East Carolina University

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