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Play Town Mini Sakura: Community Building with Children
No full text*Focus on Japan | Reports from the Field
“Mini Sakura” is a “play town” where children can play the roles of citizens. This report describes the 2005 Mini Sakura event. The success of the event suggests that children’s active participation in Mini Sakura can enable them to participate better in real society in the future
The Challenges of Bringing the Waldkindergarten Concept to North America
No full textAn increased interest in nature-based early childhood education in the United States has ledto the import of the Waldkindergarten concept from Europe. Cultural differences between Europe and America pertinent to early childhood education create challenges to running a successful Waldkindergarten program in the United States. Differences in the value placed on play versus academics, in the risk versus safety analysis, and in the concepts of fun, nature and childhood, can lead to misinterpretation of and dissatisfaction with the program. Education, communication, research and challenges in policy are key to bringing the potential benefitsof the Waldkindergarten concept to the United States
Greening Early Childhood Education
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International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education
Go Green Rating Scale Handbook for Early Childhood Settings: Improving Your Score by Phil Boise
Go Green Rating Scale for Early Childhood Settings by Phil Boise
Eco-Healthy Child Care website of the Children’s Environmental Health Network
Recent Reviews and Policy Statements on Chemical Risks to Childre
Teacher and Administrator Perceptions of School Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa
No full textWe used narrative interviews to explore how teachers and school administratorsin low-income schools in Cape Town, South Africa, perceive their school gardens. The interviewees emphasized that, although the school gardens require substantial resource inputs—including funding, labor, and training—they offer great benefits for students, such as an opportunity to expand environmental awareness and concern, develop skills related to growing food, and realize the interconnectedness between the environment and economic andfood systems.In this way, school gardens promote the convergence of environmental education, environmental justice, and everyday living. Ultimately, the data constellated around one primary theme: the garden speaks to the importance of greater self-sufficiency for students and staff alike
Urban South African Adolescents’ Perceptions of Their Neighborhood Socio-Economic Environments: The Birth to Twenty Plus Cohort Study
No full textThe Apartheid era led to major differences in the living conditions between population groups in South Africa. Subsequently, reforms have been implemented to reduce poverty and inequalities. This study aims to assess neighborhood and school socio-economic (SE) environments reported by adolescents to determine whether geographic and population group differences in the SE environment exist. Neighborhood SE status was assessed using a novel questionnaire adapted to the urban South African context. Black African and Mixed Ancestry participants lived in more deprived SE environments and reported studying in less favorable school environments compared to Whites. Among Black Africans, thoseliving in Soweto versus metropolitan Johannesburg reported more deprived economic and school environments
Connecting Animals and Children in Early Childhood by Patty Born Selly
No full textReviewed work: Connecting Animals and Children in Early Childhood by Patty Born Sell
Theorizing a Sense of Place in a Transnational Community
No full textThis article presents an emerging theoretical framework about how children in a transnational community develop a sense of place. Stemming from her own experiences with place, the author used a phenomenological hermeneutic approach to interrogate and interpret place through the lens of Caribbean-identified youth recruited from a local high school. Additional data sources included photographs, films and creative works about and by members of the Caribbean Diaspora. The major themes found were that children’ssense of place in a transnational context is influenced by a) things their parents value about place, b) their own sense of identity and connections to places, and c) places in which they live that are meaningful to them and their families
The Impact of a Natural Playscape Installation on Young Children’s Play Behaviors
No full textThis mixed-methods study focused on environmental affordances and play behaviors during a shift from a traditional to a natural playscape in an early childhood setting. Researchers examined how well the playscape attracted and held children’s attention in cooperative, constructive, nature, and locomotor play. Analysis of pre- and post-installation time-sampling observations, field notes, and interviews with children revealed more complex play narratives post-construction, highlighting the importance of intentionally designed natural playscapes to promote development. A playscape feature’s attracting power and holding time revealed relationships between play types and sand and water, the role of loose parts, accessible materials, and carefully designed pathways that expanded play narratives across the playscape
Nature Kindergartens and Forest Schools, 2nd edition by Claire Warden
No full textReview work: Nature Kindergartens and Forest Schools, 2nd edition by Claire Warde
Pediatric Inpatient Room Experience
No full textThere is very little research on the design of pediatric patient rooms. The purpose of this study was to obtain information from hospitalized children and their parents regarding the effectiveness of patient room design and its impact on quality of life. We examined the relative impact of two patient rooms: a traditional room design and an evidence-based patient room created through the Adopt-a-Room design initiative (AAR). Forty-one adults and 37 children participated in the study. Higher satisfaction was reported for the AAR. The results of the comparison between subjects in the two environments using the PedsQL tool demonstrated trends in the direction of most hypotheses, but were not statistically significant