Children and Their Environments: Learning, Using and Designing Spaces

ISBN-13: 9780521546829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 296 str.

Christopher Spencer; Mark Blades

Opis

Examining theories of children's perceptions of space and place, this book explores how these theories are applied to the world of children. Its focus is on children in large real world spaces; places that children live in, explore and learn from. These include classrooms, playgrounds, homes and yards, towns, communities, countryside, natural environments, and the wider world. An international team of authors compares the experiences of children from different cultures and backgrounds by linking research on children's comprehension and daily lives to recommendations for practice.

Spis treści

An introduction Christopher Spencer and Mark Blades; Part I. Children's Understanding of Places: 1. Scale in children's experience with the environment Scott Bell; 2. The problem of lost children Edward H. Cornell and Kenneth A. Hill; 3. Children's understanding of environmental representations: aerial photographs and model towns Beverly Plester, Mark Blades and Christopher Spencer; 4. Children's knowledge of countries Martyn Barrett, Evanthia Lyons and Alison Bourchier-Sutton; Part II. Children's Experience of Places: 5. Learning neighbourhood environments: the loss of experience in a modern world Antonella Rissotto and M. Vittoria Giuliani; 6. The classroom environment and children's performance - is there a relationship? Sandra Horne Martin; 7. 'Sometimes birds sound like fish': perspectives on children's place experiences Victoria Derr; 8. Is contact with nature important for healthy child development? State of the evidence Andrea Faber Taylor and Frances E. Kuo; 9. Environmental child-friendliness in the light of the Bullerby Model Marketta Kyttä; Part III. Adolescents' Worlds?: 10. On the other side of the tracks: the psychogeographies and everyday lives of rural teenagers in the UK Hugh Matthews and Faith Tucker; 11. The socio-environmental affordances of adolescents' environments Charlotte Clark and David L. Uzzell; Part IV. Children and the Design Process: 12. Children as agents in sustainable development: the ecology of competence Harry Heft and Louise Chawla; 13. Children and city design: proactive process and the 'renewal' of childhood Mark Francis and Ray Lorenzo; 14. A learning-based approach to urban planning with young people Liisa Horelli; 15. Young people's participation in constructing a socially just public sphere Sharon Egretta Sutton and Susan P. Kemp.