Making Sense of Place

Children's Understanding of Large-Scale Environments

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

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Beskrivning

This 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1992-04-09
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:9780389209874

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Barnpsykologi och utvecklingspsykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

M. H. Matthews is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Coventry Polytechnic.

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This book will be a primary reference for years to come for those interested in children and space. The extensive review of literature, nondogmative view of theory, methodology and practice, and humble approach to children makes it easy to recommend. Journal of Cultural Geography The reading behind this book is huge, the bibliography publishable in itself, the scholarship genuine. It will be accessible to both geographers and psychologists alike. -- Chris Spencer, University of Sheffield Journal of Cultural Geography Presents one of the most organized, cogent, and compelling challenges to date of Piagetian state theory of human development...Making Sense of Place is a first rate book. -- Chris Spencer, University of Sheffield The Pennsylvania Geographer More than a reference book for your shelves. It is a guide to how geography can take place at scales, and with subject populations, that are different from usual, but of considerable importance to public welfare and the quality of life. Journal of Higher Education More than a reference book for your shelves. It is a guide to how geography can take place at scales, and with subject populations, that are different from usual, but of considerable importance to public welfare and the quality of life. Journal of Higher Education This book will be a primary reference for years to come for those interested in children and space. The extensive review of literature, nondogmative view of theory, methodology and practice, and humble approach to children makes it easy to recommend. Journal of Cultural Geography The reading behind this book is huge, the bibliography publishable in itself, the scholarship genuine. It will be accessible to both geographers and psychologists alike. -- Chris Spencer, University of Sheffield Journal of Cultural Geography Presents one of the most organized, cogent, and compelling challenges to date of Piagetian state theory of human development...Making Sense of Place is a first rate book. -- Chris Spencer, University of Sheffield The Pennsylvania Geographer