Children as Environmental Planners

Nagy, Jill N.; Baird, John C.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-3405-7_8

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“…In addition to the application of developmental psychology, another source that provides an indirect understanding of the capacity of youth to participate is the handful of experiments that have assessed the spatial skills of children. Nagy and Baird (1978) found that children as young as nine years old were able to accurately represent the spatial arrangement of a familiar environment (a playground), but that the children's maps of their ideal spaces did not reflect their preferences. Halseth and Doddridge (2000) examined young children's cognitive mapping abilities, noting that the children worked diligently to represent places that were important to them.…”

Section: Youth Capacity For Participationmentioning

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“…Researchers have adapted what is known from developmental psychology to predict youth capacity for participation and to suggest effective techniques of engagement (Baldassari, Hart, and Lockett 1980;Hart 1997;Hart et al 1997;Bartlett et al 1999). Additionally, researchers have conducted experiments of the ability of youth to perform specific planning tasks such as neighborhood design (Nagy and Baird 1978), aerial photography interpretation (Plester et al 2002), and cognitive mapping (Halseth and Doddridge 2000).…”

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The Potential of Youth Participation in Planning

Frank

2006

Journal of Planning Literature

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The field of planning is increasingly recognizing youth as an important stakeholder group, and there are calls to directly involve youth in planning processes. Because youth are in many respects different from adults, the practice of youth participation needs special consideration. This article summarizes the findings from empirical studies of youth participation in terms of the impacts on the young participants and their communities, the capacity of youth to participate, and five lessons for effective practice. The literature review will help planners create meaningful opportunities for youth to have a voice in community and environmental affairs.

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Section: Youth Capacity For Participationmentioning

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The Potential of Youth Participation in Planning

Frank

2006

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…This weakness may be overcome by the use of multidimensional scaling statistical procedures (MDS). Nagy & Baird (1980) used MDS methods to analyse children's spatial awareness specifically because they provide a way to encompass qualitative and quantitative attributes of their data.…”

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The Structure of Pupils' Worries During Transition from Junior to Secondary School

Brown

Armstrong

1982

British Educational Res J

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Transfer from junior to secondary school is not necessarily accomplished painlessly by children. There has been a general failure to monitor the child's own perception of transition. Worries, as experienced by pupils themselves, may be uncovered by collecting accounts from children (N = 173). Problems in analysing qualitative date are overcome by using a non‐metric multidimensional scaling analysis (the Guttman‐Lingoes Smallest Space Analysis). This procedure intercorrelates items (worries) and represents them as points in a spatial array. Three distinct regions are identifiable in the multidimensional space concerning worries about interpersonal and social relationships, school work and discipline. The structure of these three sources of worries is demonstrated by means of another Guttman procedure, partial order scalogram analysis (POSA). Worries are shown to be qualitatively and quantitatively different over time. Teachers' perception of worries are demonstrated to be different from those of the children. Findings are discussed in relation to pastoral care.

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“…An appreciation of the environment begins at an early age, marked by an intensity of exploration usually lost on adults (Talen and Coffindaffer 1999, 321). Research has found that children possess an inherent spatial cognition (Halseth and Doddridge 2000;Hart 1997Hart , 1987Blaut 1987Blaut , 1969Nagy and Baird 1978;Hart and Moore 1971). These skills are in contrast with most children's education, which excludes urban and environmental planning (Kowaltowski et al 2004;Hart 1987).…”

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Comparing Rural and Urban Children's Perceptions of an Ideal Community

Machemer

Bruch

Kuipers

2008

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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While there is research on children's participation, what is needed are investigations on how children perceive community design and whether the geographic location in which the children live has an effect on their perceptions of an ideal community. The objectives of this study are to (1) identify children's ideal community elements and (2) determine if there are any differences in rural and urban children's perceptions. Models of an ideal community are created by ninety-three rural children and fifty urban children in a design charrette. Model content is analyzed using multivariate statistics to identify element and pattern preferences. Principal component analysis of the resultant thirty-eight models reveals that for the rural children, six components are considered significant dimensions and explain 67 percent of the variance, with the first component accounting for nearly 27 percent of the variance. For the urban children, four components are significant and explain 51 percent of the variance, with the first component accounting for nearly 15 percent of the variance. Spatial diagrams indicate that there is a difference between the rural and urban models. Furthermore, discriminant analysis reveals that there is a statistical difference between the content of the urban and rural models at a significance level of .007.

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Children as Environmental Planners

Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

The Potential of Youth Participation in Planning

The Potential of Youth Participation in Planning

The Structure of Pupils' Worries During Transition from Junior to Secondary School

Comparing Rural and Urban Children's Perceptions of an Ideal Community

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