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National Center for Education Statistics Office of Educational Research & Improvement, U.S. Dept. of Education 1990 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA, Phone: (202) 502-7300
A more differentiated picture of children's spatial culture emerges when children discuss and take photographs of settings that are meaningful to them. This article applies the concept "children's places" to explain the fact that children relate not only to official places provided by adults, but also to informal places, often unnoticed by adults.
Place-based education is an umbrella term for many closely related fields of education: environmental education, experiential education, pedagogy of place, community-based education, and education for sustainability (Woodhouse & Knapp, 2000). The foundations of place-based education include Sobel’s work (1993, 1994) studying children’s ...
During the grand opening, Hart engaged with hundreds of children with a read-aloud of his very own book, Marcus Makes a Movie—the first in a highly illustrated middle-grade series published by ...
Chapter 2 describes specific examples of children's spaces from England and Carriacou in the West Indies, data collection techniques, and patterns that began to surface in the data. Chapter 3 includes a portrayal of the role these places play during middle childhood in helping foster and shape the unique self that emerges in adolescence.
The second included special place tours and informal interviews with 12 children and parents in their homes. Analysis revealed four activities representing children's place experiences: playing, hiding, resting, and exploring. Children's descriptions and observed behaviors were categorized and quantified to demonstrate their range of place use.
group (e.g. mass texts or emails about school policy, Facebook posts announcing school events) and as individuals (e.g. teacher emails regarding student progress) can positively support the engagement of parents of children of all ages (Bouffard, 2008; Watkins, 2013). Ho et al. (2013)
The NCES Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program designs and develops information resources to help understand the social and spatial context of education in the United States. It uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to create custom indicators of social, economic, and housing conditions for ...