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RE: Drawings by tribal kids of the Wayanad forests of India shows creativity and imagination have no bounds!
Thanks so much for sharing these. Isn't it amazing the amount of detail, especially natural history detail, that has entered into these drawings? Very interesting in deed!
Indeed, it shows us how vivid and clear their imagiation is!
Well, also that they pay a lot of attention to the plants and trees and birds and animals and the landscape. That it's significant to them. No doubt British kids of the same age would be more capable of drawing a pokemon than drawing an anywhere near accurate tree leaf.
Indeed. That is the surroundings and the environment they are brought up in.
So to put my comment into perspective, I've been studying the role of nature connection and disconnection, here for example is an abstract for a paper regarding the rate of nature references in English popular culture. They found that Disney films were including less and less detail as regards natural life. These childrens pictures look like Victorian botanists notebooks by comparison. :)
Kesebir, S. (2016). Growing disconnect from nature is evident in cultural products. Perspectives in Psychological Science 2016.
Human connection with nature is widely believed to be in decline, even though empirical evidence on the magnitude and temporal pattern of the change is scarce. Studying works of popular culture in English throughout the 20th century and later, we document a cultural shift away from nature, beginning in the 1950s. Since then, references to nature have been decreasing steadily in fiction, song lyrics, and film storylines. No parallel decline is observed in references to the human-made environment. These findings are cause for concern, not only because they imply foregone benefits from engagement with nature, but also because cultural products are agents of socialization that can evoke curiosity, respect, and concern for the natural world.
I could not agree more. In popular fiction, children movies, songs or any such form of creative outlets, the aim has changed. I appreciate and love series like Planet Earth, the Human Planet, Planet Ocean and similar bluechip films that have done a fantastic job at showing us how amazing and interconnected everything in nature and this world is. Things like these should be made more and more for kids as well.
I believe that if you grow up more exposed to nature, wildlife and natural surroundings, you become a better, more balanced and more concerned and empathatic individual in your later years. The far fetched effects of such a childhood cannot be overstated. (example in point: me!)
Thanks for commenting. Your comments are always very informative and thought provoking. Cheers! :)