Making Sense of Place: Children's Understanding of Large-scale EnvironmentsThis clearly written and generously illustrated book unravels how children make sense of place. The author demonstrates that, either at birth or shortly after, all children are natural environmental mappers and protogeographers. Matthews, a geographer who is equally at ease with psychological research, also makes valuable suggestions on how adults can make provisions for play and schooling which take into account children's environmental needs and capabilities. This is the most comprehensive, and current, work to date on the psychology of children's understanding of geography. |
Contents
PART ONE CHILDRENS EXPERIENCE OF PLACE | 5 |
Childrens indirect experience of place and space | 55 |
PART THREE CHILDRENS ENVIRONMENTAL | 115 |
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able Acredolo activity adults aerial photographs Blaut boys child childhood children aged children's environmental children's maps children's place cognitive mapping Cohen complex constructivist context cultural developmental Developmental Psychology distance estimates distance sex draw ecological egocentric elements environmental cognition environmental competence environmental experience environmental information environmental knowledge Environmental Psychology environmental skills example explore factors free range geographical George Butterworth girls graphicacy Hart home area home range images important interaction landmarks landscape large-scale environments large-scale space learning macroenvironment macrospace mapping skills Matthews mental Moore nativist nature neighbourhood number of studies objects opportunities parents perception performance perspective Piaget Piagetian play playgrounds primary reference relation relationship response route scale sense of place settings shown Siegel Sinocentric social spatial ability spatial information spatial knowledge spatial skills Stea structure suburban suggests symbols tasks Temne tests urban views visual wayfinding Weatherford whilst young children