ISBN:
9780415741170
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (259 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Children and the Environment in an Australian Indigenous Community : A psychological approach
DDC:
305.23109943
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Aboriginal children represent one of the fastest growing population segments in Australia, yet the lives of Aboriginal children in their environment has rarely been subjected to systematic and in-depth study. In this book, Angela Kreutz considers the relationship between the environment, attachment and development in indigenous children, examining theoretical constructs and conceptual models by empirically road testing these ideas within a distinct cultural community. The book presents the first empirical study on Australian Aboriginal children's lives from within the field of child-environmen
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Glossary of place names; Introduction; Part I Perspective matters; 1 ""Come this way"": research with children; 2 ""That's my home"": historical and contemporary insights; Part II Children and place; 3 ""I go everywhere"": children's spatial activity; 4 ""Playing around"": affordances of place; 5 ""A deadly place"": place attachments and aversions; Part III Design possibility; 6 ""No one swims there anymore"": lack of child-environment congruence
Description / Table of Contents:
7 ""See the future"": design recommendationsConclusion; Appendix; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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