1st Edition

Environment and Children

By Christopher Day, Anita Midbjer Copyright 2007
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility? Based on Christopher Day's experiences designing schools and early childhood centres in the United States and Britain, this... Read more
Design by Adults - Experience by Children; Childhood - A Journey; Fundamental Needs; Social Relationships and Place; Issues of Health; From Sensory Experience to Integrated Thinking; Light and Darkness - Age and Situation; Colour and Children; What Places Say - Silent Lessons; Places of Welcome; Outdoor Places; Environment for the Developing Child; Learning to Care for the Environment; Living with the Elements; Making Nature's Cycles Visible; Levels of Life; Learning Sustainability Through Daily Experience; Sustainable Schools; From Ends to Means

Biography

Christopher Day, Anita Midbjer