Description
Creating a Sense of Place in School Environments guides its readers to the characteristics that tend to generate a sense of place through children’s vivid descriptions of their school and provides a body of critical information that can be employed to design a better school environment that can imprint cherished childhood memories.
The childhood school environment calls for special attention regarding the sense of place it creates. The sense of place in childhood both affects children's current quality of life and frames their lasting world view. It is well known that children's cognitive development is closely related to their place attachment to their surroundings, and that children’s adaptation to a given environment depends on how such place attachment can be created. Therefore, it is natural that people’s identity in the world is the accumulation of their experience of place while in childhood.
Cross-checking between the imprint of adults' memories of places in school and children’s current "lived experience" of their favorite school place confirmed that certain spatial configurations, which the author herein refers to as "place generators" can generate positive attributes of physical settings that construct a sense of place and last as lifelong memories. It is an ideal read for academics, students, and professionals.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Sense of Place
2.1 Definition and Characteristics of Sense of Place
2.2 Finding Place Generator from Memory Sketch
Chapter 3. Characteristics of Place for Children
3.1 General Characteristics of Children’s Perception of Space
3.2 Characteristics of Children’s Sense of Place
Chapter 4. Positioning and Framing
4.1 Positioning for Framing
4.2 Framing for Questions
Chapter 5. School as a Memory Place for Adults
5.1 Aspects of Contemporary School Environment
5.2 School Place in Adult Memory Sketch
Chapter 6. Lived Experience of Schoolchildren
6.1 Children’s Favorite Place in School
6.2 Interpretation of the Sense of Place of Schoolchildren
6.3 Cross-Comparison and Presence of Place Generator
Chap 7. Changes in the School Environment
7.1 Sense of Place in Schools Without a Playground: Case of Schools in Seoul
7.2 Sense of Place in Schools Sharing with Community: Case of Dutch Brede Schools
Conclusion : Toward a "Sense of Place" in School Environments
Reference
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