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Geographies of Alternative Education: Diverse Learning Spaces for Children and Young People by Peter Kraftl
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No full textNature Play and Learning Places: Creating and Managing Places Where Children Engage with Nature by Moore, Robin C.
Designing the Sustainable Site: Integrated Design Strategies for Small Scale Sites and Residential Landscapes by Heather Venhaus
The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden by Rick Darke and Doug Tallamy
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas W. Tallamy
 
Parental Neighborhood Safety Perceptions and Their Children’s Health Behaviors: Associations by Child Age, Gender and Household Income
No full textThis study examined relationships betweenparents’ neighborhood safety perceptions (NSPs) and their children’s physical activity, active commuting to school, park use, active transportation to parks, and screen time, including differences by child gender, age, and income. Parents completed validated measures about NSPs and one child’s behaviors. Children (n=144) were dichotomized into highor low groups for each of five behaviors and ANCOVAs analyzed between-group differences in parents’ NSPs. There were no significant NSP differences for physical activityor active commuting, buthigher parental NSPs were associated with greater park use among the full sample, males, ages 3-5, ages 13-17, and low-income children. Higher parental NSPs were also related to females’ greater active transport to parks and less screen time. Addressing structural and psychosocial elements of neighborhood safety can lead to increased physical and social activity among young people
A Child-Centered Evaluation of a Psychosocial Program: Promoting Children’s Healing, Safety and Well-Being in Post-Disaster Contexts
No full textThis article reports on a child-centered evaluation of a psychosocial, school-based program for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. The program, Journey of Hope: Coping with and Normalizing Emotions, was initiated to promote children’s safety and well-being and to help mitigate a range of violence-related risks facing children in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (which hit the south east United States in August 2005). The approach centered on building children’s resilience by supporting them to better understand their emotions, reflect on their contexts with respect to child safety and well-being, and give them opportunities to develop their own positive, non-violent coping strategies in their lives. Using a mixed-methods approach including interviews, a survey questionnaire, and observation notes, the evaluation assessed the program’s impact on and relevance to participants. Despite the short duration of the program, the evaluation suggested the program had enhanced the social well-being, knowledge, skills, emotional well-being of participants. The program’s relevance came from its adaptable design and child-centered delivery. This article addresses the value of locally-developed curricula and the role of school-based programs in promoting children’s healing and safety from violence in post-disaster contexts
Childhood, Urban Violence and Territory: Children’s Perceptions of Place and Violence in Public Housing Neighborhoods in Portugal
No full textRooted in socio-ecological theories, this article discusses how children perceive the influence of community and place in the forms of violence they identify in their neighborhoods. The article reports on a case study conducted between 2005 and 2009 based on ethnographic and child-centered research methods to explore children’s personal accounts of their lives, mainly through visual techniques, in six public housing neighborhoods in the Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal. Most children complained about living there, describing how social, ethnic and spatial segregation affected them. Violence and crime were labeled as the most prominent problems and children’s exposure to neighborhood violence seldom occurs only once or just in one form. The “normalization” of violence perceived by children influences their use of the neighborhoods’ places and reduces their sense of the seriousness and effects of violent acts. Some children emerged not only as victims, but also as violence agents at a young age
Environmental Education to Promote Peace and Cooperation: A Case Study of Tree Nurseries in Nakuru, Kenya
No full textThis field report describes a peace education program in the Nakuru district of Kenya that focuses on environmental education through tree nurseries. The peace clubs introduced tree nurseries as a way of equipping children to take care of their environment. The interaction required to maintain these nurseries strengthens these relationships and promotes cooperation. By planting and caring for tree nurseries, children are able to express their commitment to their community and to the lasting health of their environment
Debunking the Dream Machine: The Case of Street Kids in Hollywood California
No full textDebunking the Dream Machine: The Case of Street Kids in Hollywood Californi
A Case Study of Space Use and Visiting Policy in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
No full textThis case study of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) used survey research, with both observation and questionnaire instruments, to explore possible relations between space use in the unit and staff attitudes regarding parental visiting. The results suggest there may be a relationship between the congested overlapping use of space in the unit and staff support for restrictions on visiting in certain situations. The space needs of parents within the nursery need to be addressed in the future NICU designs