![]() ![]() Fascinated and concerned by these changes, Dr Robert Macfarlane began to wonder about the relationship between childhood and the living world. Then there were the revisions to a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary (OJD): out went everyday nature words like acorn, bluebell and kingfisher, no longer used enough by children to merit inclusion in came attachment, broadband, voice-mail, reflecting today’s tech-savvy child who is more at home on the internet than they are in the woods. Courtesy Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, The Lost Words (2017), Hamish Hamilton.įirst there was the finding that British primary school children were more at ease naming their favourite Pokémon character than they were at naming a hare, a deer or an oak tree. ![]() ![]() This article was first published in the University of Cambridge’s Research Horizons magazine in October 2018. EDITOR’S NOTE: The Lost Words (Hamish Hamilton, 2017) by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect the natural world numerous crowdfunding campaigns later, the book is appearing in primary schools all across the UK. ![]()
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