1st Edition

The Evolution of Young People’s Spatial Knowledge

280 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Young people imagine, perceive, experience, talk about, use, and produce space in a wide variety of ways. In doing so, they acquire and produce stocks of spatial knowledge. A quite dynamic and ever-changing process by nature, young people’s production and acquisition of spatial knowledge are susceptible to many kinds of conditions—from those that shape their everyday routines to those that... Read more

1 Finding Change: Identifying and Explaining How Young People’s Spatial Knowledge is Refigured  2 Investigating the Refiguration of Spaces by Means of Young People’s Spatial Knowledge: A Conceptual Introduction  3 Second-Level Empiricism, or Learning to Read Between Interpretative Orders: A Snapshot of Our Qualitative Meta-Analysis  4 Young People’s Spatialities: From Physical-Material Rigidity to Virtual Versatility  5 Spatial Perception: Assessments of Today and What a Spatial Future Might Look Like  6 Learning Arenas and Agencies of Spatial Knowledge: Physical-Sensory Production, Scholastic Acquisition, and a Varied In-Between  7 The Domestication of Young People’s Spatial Knowledge: Social Control and Spatial Pedagogization  8 The Evolution of Young People’s Spatial Knowledge: Overarching Findings, Connections, and Takeaways

Biography

Ignacio Castillo Ulloa, PhD, is Researcher and Lecturer in the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, and co-editor of Spatial Transformations: Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Re-Figuration of Spaces. He is Researcher at the CRC 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces."

Anna Juliane Heinrich, PhD, is Researcher and Lecturer in the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, and the co-editor of Education, Space and Urban Planning: Education as a Component of the City. She is PI at the CRC 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces."

Angela Million, PhD, is Professor of Urban Design and Urban Development at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. She is the co-editor of Spatial Transformations: Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces and Education, Space and Urban Planning: Education as a Component of the City. She is PI at the CRC 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces."

Jona Schwerer is Research Assistant in the Research Center "Transformations of Political Violence" at the Chair of Urban Sociology and Sociology of Space at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is an associate member of the CRC 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces."