The landscape of childhood: play and place as tools to understanding children’s enviromental use and perceptions

Alexander, Jamie K; Cocks, Michelle L; Shackleton, Charlie M

Title: The landscape of childhood: play and place as tools to understanding children’s enviromental use and perceptions
Creator: Alexander, Jamie K
Creator: Cocks, Michelle L
Creator: Shackleton, Charlie M
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141165
Identifier: vital:37949
Identifier: DOI: 10.1007/s10745-015-9755-z
Description: Research has shown that children are the greatest users of natural areas and that childhood experiences strongly shape adults’ environmental values. This project was designed to ascertain children’s environmental uses and perceptions in two rural villages in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, utilising children’s use of the environment for play and their sense of place as key focus areas. Several factors influenced children’s environmental use, including safety fears, increased consumption of western media and environmental restrictions imposed by the state, revealing how South Africa’s high level of violence against women and children contributes to gendered environmental use and knowledge, and bringing about concern for children’s cultural identity in an increasingly westernised world.
Format: 14 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Human ecology
Relation: Alexander, J., Cocks, M.L. and Shackleton, C., 2015. The landscape of childhood: play and place as tools to understanding children’s enviromental use and perceptions. Human ecology, 43(3), pp.467-480.
Relation: Human ecology volume 43 number 3 467 480 July 2015 0300-7839
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