User:Rixs

User Rixs

This is the personal user page of Rixs. If you want to contact me, either write on my Talk page or click the link on the left to e-mail this user.

I live in the United Kingdom and have interests in business, computing, Parenting, and other areas.

Pages I Maintain or Edit

• Slow parenting, started, major article
• Forest School (education), started, major article
• Attention Restoration Theory, started, moderate article
• Secret Garden (outdoor nursery), started moderate article based on what used to be in Wood kindergarten with quotes.
• Forest kindergarten, major rewrite.
• Kindergarten, medium (about UK)
• Pre-school education
• Nursery school
• Risk aversion
• Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D W1

Minor Edits

• Idle parenting, started redirect
• The Idle Parent, started redirect
• Free-range kids, started redirect
• Free range kids, started redirect
• Biophilia hypothesis, minor
• Nature deficit disorder, minor
• Urban forestry, minor
• Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D series started list

Work in progress

• Slow parenting needs work; some sections are stubs.
• Link together Kindergarten , Preschool Education, Nursery School, Forest kindergarten etc (Montesorri et al)

References to Use

Kahn, Peter H.; Kellert, Stephen R. (2002). Children and nature: psychological, sociocultural, and evolutionary investigations. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ISBN 0262611759.

Maller, Cecily; Townsend, Mardie; St Leger, Lawrence (March 2008). Healthy parks, healthy people: The health benefits of contact with nature in a park context (PDF). Deakin University and Parks Victoria.

Kuo, I-Chun (2004). "From Earthworm to Pocket Monster. Childhood Experience of Nearby Nature and Adult Environmental Behavior Over Time in Taipei Min-Quan Elementary School Neighborhood" (PDF). (Re)constructing Communities Design Participation in the Face of Change. ISBN 9780976442004. {{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter |booktitle= ignored (|book-title= suggested) (help)

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. ISBN 0618249060.