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Identifying clientelism in orphanages: a conceptual model Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Rebecca Nhep
Much has been written on the factors that contribute to a child’s admission into institutional care, including poverty, lack of access to education, death of a parent, active recruitment, and the s...
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Latina students’ experiences in public schools Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Inayatur Robbaniyah, Sandra Damar Siswanti
Published in Children's Geographies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘The world is your oyster’: mothers’ perspectives on the value and purpose of an independent Forest School provision Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Samantha Friedman, Linda Allin, William Gray
Time in nature, including in organised settings like Forest Schools, is associated with a range of benefits for child development. Parents are typically the facilitators or enablers of these nature...
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Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children’s sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Amanda D. Webber, V. Jones, L. McEwen, T. Deave, L. Gorell Barnes, S. Williams, L. Hobbs, L. Fogg-Rogers, D. Gopinath
Children’s sense of place is important for wellbeing, development and belonging in a community or place. The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic – Children’s Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery) p...
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Climate crisis activism in early childhood: building capacities to boost intergenerational learning Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Jane Spiteri
This viewpoint considers climate crisis activism through participatory pedagogical approaches to intergenerational learning, in the context of early childhood education. Given the dire predictions ...
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Editorial statement on violence against children and a call for a ceasefire in Gaza Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Matej Blazek
Published in Children's Geographies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Israel’s war on Gaza and the violation of children’s rights Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Karen Wells, Susana Cortés-Morales, James Esson, Deirdre Horgan, Fikile Nxumalo, Ann Phoenix, Pauliina Rautio, Rachel Rosen
The current intensification of Israel’s on-going war on Gaza has killed over 25,000 people in less than four months; half of them children. Nearly 60,000 people have been injured, almost all civili...
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Re-imagining child-nature relationships in ecotourism: children’s conservation awareness through nature play and nature-based learning Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Heli King, Harriot Beazley, Leah Barclay, Amanda Miller
Education is an essential part of ecotourism, and first-hand experiences in nature can lead to increased awareness and concern for the environment. Environmental education in ecotourism, however, i...
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‘ … nice to get some alone time’: children’s spatial negotiation of alone time needs in the family home Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Sandra Costa Santos, Rosie Parnell, Husam Abo Kanon, Emily Pattinson, Alkistis Pitsikali, Heba Sarhan
This article exposes the spatial dimensions that children seek to support their alone time needs in the family home, based on empirical data from the At Home with Children research project. Domesti...
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More-than-human and more-than-digital collecting among young children in Norway Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Kenneth Pettersen
This study aims to advance our understanding of young children’s contemporary collecting. Collecting is a prevalent practice among young children. However, extant research typically highlights chil...
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Children's territorialities in a Brazilian right-to-housing movement Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Luciana M. Bizzotto, Maria Cristina S. Gouvêa, Levindo D. Carvalho, Stuart C. Aitken
This paper discusses children's experiences in the context of a social phenomenon of a Brazilian right-to-housing movement known as urban occupation. Our discussions are focused more specifically o...
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Knowledge and perception of Spanish school children of climate change Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Álvaro-Francisco Morote, María Hernández
One topic that is currently playing a major role in education is climate change, given its implications for raising awareness and training in present and future society. The objectives of this rese...
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‘There’s not a lot of places for them to go’: rural and remote family perspectives on children’s independent mobility Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Chelsea Pelletier, Katie Cornish, Caroline Sanders
Children’s independent mobility (CIM) is the freedom of children to move around their neighbourhood or community without adult supervision. The aim of this study was to explore experiences with CIM...
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Multi-layered mobilities: unaccompanied minors’ trajectories, decision-making and mobility after arrival in Italy Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Océane Uzureau, Ine Lietaert, Daniel Senovilla Hernández, Ilse Derluyn
This article explores the evolution of unaccompanied minors’ (UMs’) decisions and migratory experiences after arrival in Italy through Libya. Until now, research has not longitudinally documented U...
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Being a child in Morelia: child spatial mobility over the years Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Alethia Vargas-Silva, Diana Tamara Martínez-Ruiz
The systemic crisis in Latin America, exacerbated by market-driven urban development, has led to heightened social segregation and diminished public spaces for mobility and recreation. In Mexico, c...
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Breaking the barriers: the capacity to aspire for higher education of Bangladesh tea workers’ children Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Md Al-Amin, Md Nazrul Islam
This article aims to examine the structural constraints to aspirations for higher education of tea workers’ offspring in Bangladesh and how some of them overcame these constraints and determined th...
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Storying itinerant childhoods: weaving a sense of belonging through collaborative art-making Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Alys Mendus, Bobi Connelly-Mendus
Storying itinerant childhoods explores belonging through intergenerational collaborative art-making and through a short film; an audio-visual family (auto)ethnography of our travels through North E...
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Intergenerational solidarities for climate healing: the case for critical methodologies and decolonial research practices Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Stephanie Lam, Carlie D. Trott
In this viewpoint paper, we argue that the predominance of single-generation research approaches in the growing literature on youth climate activism risks obscuring the intergenerational nature of ...
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Noticing nature on the waterways Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Thomas Aneurin Smith, Hannah Pitt
Noticing nature has often been described as a process through which young people come to know, understand, and care for it. This paper challenges these assumptions through examining practices of no...
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Mosaicking childhoodnature relations: situated encounters with country in times of climate change* Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, Eliane Bastos, Hannah Hogarth, Bryony Sands, Ria Dunkley, Lucy Wenham, Angga Saputra, Oliver Fernandez McCabe, Anna Fletcher, Amaan Abdulla Nashid, Artha Anjani, Bethany Davies
This paper, by an intergenerational and international author collective, uses postqualitative ‘mosaicking’ to assemble and reassemble ‘material moments’ of childhoodnature encounters. Mosaicking is...
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Correction Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-12-26
Published in Children's Geographies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Children’s perceptions of safety in their school path: the case of the Basque Country Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Naiara Berasategi Sancho, Idoia Legorburu Fernnadez, Israel Alonso Saez, Nahia Idoiaga Mondragon
In spite of the benefits of commuting to school actively and autonomously, this is not a common habit shown by children in contemporary societies. One of the main determinants of deciding whether o...
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‘But, what is a researcher?’ Developing a novel ethics resource to support informed consent with young children Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Julia Truscott, Laura Benton
Young children are generally unfamiliar with the notion of research, which can generate ethical discomfort when seeking their consent to participate in it. Taking informed consent with young childr...
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The war within: emotional experiences of children in Norwegian child protection services Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Samita Wilson, Sarah Hean, Tatek Abebe, Vanessa Heaslip, Jonathan A. Smith
This article demonstrates how children’s emotional experiences in the context of child protection services (CPS) impact their choices in everyday lives. It draws on a qualitative study examining th...
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Diffracting young people’s perceptions and agency on adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh: through socioecological, posthuman, and postcolonial positioning Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ferdousi Khatun, Marianne Logan
Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to climate change and Bangladeshi children and young people witness immense changes taking place in their everyday lives due to the catastrophic impacts of climat...
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Interspecies care, knowledge and ownership: children’s equestrian cultures in Sweden and Finland Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Nora Schuurman, Karin Dirke, David Redmalm, Tora Holmberg
Riding became a widespread leisure activity for children in Sweden and Finland during the post-war decades through the emergence of riding schools. Drawing on books and comics published in Sweden a...
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Temporal tensions in young adults’ efforts towards influencing institutional climate action Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Rebecca Collins, Tamara Hunt, Jade Cox
In this Viewpoint we draw attention to an overlooked tension at the intersection of young adults’ and older adults’ everyday life-world temporalities, and argue that this tension presents a conside...
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Exploring the opportunities and constraints of urban small green spaces: an investigation of affordances Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Parna Rastgo, Arlinda Hajzeri, Ehsan Ahmadi
The presence of green elements, such as plants, trees, and natural outdoor spaces, has been found to have a significant impact on children's physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Studies have...
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Reconfiguring school learning spaces: students’ and teachers’ voices on well-being Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Derya Kilicoglu, Gokhan Kilicoglu
The aim of our research is to draw attention to school learning spaces that fulfil the needs of students and promote their well-being. With the aim of facilitating a deeper understanding of teacher...
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The influence of gender on young women’s everyday (im)mobilities in Inverness, Scotland Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Bekkah Bernheim
Young women’s (im)mobilities are influenced by a web of factors at the individual, interpersonal and macro levels of analysis. These factors, including young women’s social identities, perceptions ...
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The role of family dialogue in becoming response-able: a common worlds approach Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Leah K. Edwards
In this Viewpoints paper, I consider the role of family dialogue in shaping political agency and morality in relation to climate change and ecological destruction, drawing on insights from Common W...
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‘Why are they making us rush?’ The school dining hall as surveillance mechanism, social learning, or child’s space? Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Gurpinder Singh Lalli, Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower
School mealtimes, for many schools, are characterized by behavioural difficulties, a problematic time of day requiring much attention and resources. Yet for many school food reformers, those wantin...
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Factors that are perceived as supporting or hindering active school travel (AST): go-along interviews with primary school children and their parents Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Juliane Schicketanz, Sigrun Kabisch, Péter Bagoly-Simó, Tobia Lakes
Children’s school journeys can provide a daily source of physical activity, social interaction, and independence. Many studies focus on quantitative analyses of factors influencing active school tr...
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Refugee and asylum-seeker children’s experiences: results of a meta ethnography Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Jane Edwards
Children’s geographies research contributes to the intent of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by comprehending children as cogent agents in the telling and creation of their...
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Our culturally maladaptive transport discourses are continuing to fail our children Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Hulya Gilbert, Marco te Brömmelstroet
The private car, as a dominant form of everyday mobilities across Australia and around the globe, continues to create a significant level of social and spatial injustice. Children are disproportion...
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The ‘messy’ online classroom during COVID-19: students opening up a liminal space between being controlled and exercising agency Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Minkyung Kwon, Hayoung Lee
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, diverse changes have been made in schools. The decision was made for students to be back in school online, and synchronous bi-directional online classes were launche...
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Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people – six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 S. Hadfield-Hill, M. Finn, J. Dudman, C. Ergler, C. Freeman, T. A. Hayes, P. Jarman, L. Leon, M. C. Lazaro, A. Latai-Niusulu, E. Oza, E. Robson, R. Rosen, M. Schaaf, S. Taua’a, H. Tanielu, L. Walker
Published in Children's Geographies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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‘I’m going to call my friend to join us': connections and challenges in online video interviews with children during COVID-19 Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Laurel Donison, Rebecca Raby, Nwakerendu Waboso, Lindsay C. Sheppard, Keely Grossman, Evan Harding, Haley Myatt
This paper explores research with children through repeated online video interviews during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides insight into the geographical and relational affordances provided by on...
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The social significance of children’s work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Thomas Yeboah, James Boafo
The aim of this paper is to investigate the social significance of children’s work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana. Using survey and semi-structured interviews, we gathered data from 218...
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Multispecies collaboratories: reconfiguring children’s more-than-human entanglement with colonization, urban development and climate change Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Narda Nelson, John Drew
This paper shows how multispecies collaboratories work to complexify understandings of shared space with more-than-human others through collective inquiry and experimentation. Recognizing tensions ...
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Geography of children’s worry during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights into variations, influences, and implications Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Roula Zougheibe, Richard Norman, Ori Gudes, Ashraf Dewan
Children face many threats that have implications for their future. Empirical evidence on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s health and its variation across geography remains limited...
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Designing and making a separate leisure space: exploring the geographies of children with disabilities Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Rebecka Tiefenbacher
Separate leisure spaces play an important part in children with disabilities’ everyday geographies, though little is known about how they are designed and organised or how children use them. This a...
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To do or not to do: practical and ethical concerns in online research with children and young people during crises Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Matluba Khan, Justin Spinney, Muntazar Monsur
ABSTRACT This article contributes to an ongoing discussion regarding the ethics of online research involving children and young people (CYP) during crises. The paper critically reflects on our experience of designing, approving and conducting a multi-country study utilising an online diary to investigate how social, physical and virtual conditions shape and are shaped by CYP’s everyday experiences
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Reimagining institutional ethics procedures in research partnerships with young people across Majority/Minority World contexts Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Mary Ann Powell, Sukanya Krishnamurthy, Loritta Chan, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Irene Rizzini, Roshni K. Nuggehalli
ABSTRACT While institutional ethics are crucial, their application on the ground often creates tensions with what is considered ‘ethical'. This paper reflects on the dissonances between formal institutional ethics and community-based research. The focus is on a project involving young people from India and Brazil, where they actively contributed as co-researchers and advisors. The project's international
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From maps to spatial stories: a case study to understand children’s (re-)productions of art museum space Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Clare Murray
Children play an important role (re-)producing art museum spaces. De Certeau, M. 2001. “Spatial Stories.” In Defining Travel: Diverse Visions. concept of spatial stories provides a helpful framewor...
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Children’s technologies of the self within neoliberal governmentality at the educational transition to Gymnasium in Zurich Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Lara Landolt, Itta Bauer
Over the last two decades, research in children’s geographies and governmentality studies have contributed significantly to the study of children’s experiences in neoliberal educational contexts. T...
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The role of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’: critical reflections on research involving young people Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-07-15 Samantha Wilkinson, Catherine Wilkinson
ABSTRACT In this Viewpoint, we consider the importance of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’. We focus on the intersections of age, gender and appearance. Reflecting on two doctoral research projects involving young people (one about alcohol consumption practices and another about community radio), researched by us – young female researchers, we reveal unanticipated ethical dilemmas from the field
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The influence of the physical environment on social behavior, school climate, and bullying in schools Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Mahnaz Izadi, Roger Hart
Bullying is a prevalent issue in American schools with short and long-term consequences for the students involved. Across the extensive anti-bullying literature, the emphasis has been on the social...
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Children’s opportunities for play in the built environment: a scoping review Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Michael Martin, Andrea Jelić, Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink
Designing opportunities for play in the built environment is crucial to support children’s health and development. A growing research focus on child-friendly environments has evidenced a shift towa...
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Children as worlding but not only: holding space for unknowing and undoing, unfolding and ongoing Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Karen Malone, Sarah Crinall
Worlding has been positioned as one way of considering how to attend and adapt to new imaginings of humanity in relation to other entities. In an act of living in places with other nonhuman beings,...
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Identities in onward migration: young people of Colombian descent in London Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Domiziana Turcatti
This article explores the identity formation of onward migrant youths – namely, individuals aged 13–28 who were born and/or raised in their parents’ first destination country and then migrated to o...
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Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Christine Balt
This article explores the possibilities in harnessing drama-based research methodologies in examining youth’s ‘right to the city’ during the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency [Lefebvre (1...
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Analysis of accessibility to public schools with GIS: a case study of Salihli city (Turkey) Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Mehmet Deniz
In many parts of the world, students face problems, such as the education system, services offered in education, educational programmes, etc. According to previous studies, some of these issues are...
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Green versus grey break: children’s place experience of recess-time in primary schools’ natural and built area Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Giulia Amicone, Silvia Collado, Paola Perucchini, Irene Petruccelli, Silvia Ariccio, Marino Bonaiuto
Studies regarding the experience of children in schools’ outdoor environments report several benefits of nature on children’s cognitive, emotional, and physical development; thus, there is a need t...
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In and out of focus: a reflective Peter Kraftl's After Childhood Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Kwang Dae (Mitsy) Chung
Published in Children's Geographies (Vol. 21, No. 6, 2023)
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To teach or not to teach climate change education – the perceptions of sixth-graders in northern Israel Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Adiv Gal
This study analyzed sixth-graders' perceptions of a year-long education program promoting activism for climate change in Israel. The program aimed to encourage students to lead activities mitigatin...
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Changes in children’s rhythms of everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic in a small town in the Prague metropolitan area Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Pavel Frydrych
The restrictions imposed in response to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected people’s everyday life, including those of children. For an extended period, children had to deal ...
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Geographies of school-related gender-based violence: children's visual accounts of school toilets Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi, Relebohile Moletsane
We report on a qualitative study that engaged learners in understanding their experiences of school-related gender-based violence in and around their school toilets in a township high school in Sou...
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Children's playgrounds: ‘inadequacies and mediocrities inherited from the past’? Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Jon Winder
This Viewpoint considers why children's playground provision has changed so little in the UK over the last century despite radical changes in our understanding of children's geographies, considerab...
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Weaving the pluriverse: childhood encounters with the undergound worlds of Birrarung Marr Children's Geographies (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 David Rousell
ABSTRACT This article weaves together a series of encounters between young children, trees, and mycelium within the multispecies worlds of Birrarung Marr, an ancient Aboriginal meeting place in the city of Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Using creative ethnographic methods, it focuses on children’s involvement in an immersive theatre-making project exploring the intricate subterranean networks of communication