Children's Place Exploration : The Geographies of Ten-Year Olds in New York City

ISBN-13: 9783639114447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 292 str.

Harouna Ba

Opis

This study focuses on the geographic exploration of§ten-year-old children in New York City. It§investigates their ways of discovering and learning§about different local places in New York City and the§factors that influence their geographic exploration. §§These questions are answered by using multiple§methodologies. Research methods included open-ended§interviews with children and parents, child-produced§atlases, child-notebooks, and informal observations§of each child s home and immediate outdoor environments.§§This study is concerned with improving children s§lives in New York City and thereby more generally§urban settings, which possess a contradictory nature§as rich places for learning and exploration and as§challenging places within which to raise children. §It addresses how parents deal with these urban§ecologies, and documents the consequences of these§urban contradictions for children. As such it has§implications for urban design and policies; can§contribute to the field of education -- geographic§education and curriculum that recognizes children s§everyday modes of learning; and raises issues of§importance to the healthy development of urban children.

O autorze

Harouna Ba, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Education
Development Center s Center for Children and Technology, an
independent nonprofit research organization based in New York
City. Dr. Ba s research has focused on the link between
children s place exploration, learning, and design; and the
ecologies of children s computing.