1st Edition
Place, Pedagogy and Play Participation, Design and Research with Children
Place, Pedagogy and Play connects landscape architecture with education, psychology, public health and planning. Over the course of thirteen chapters it examines how design and research of places can be approached through multiple lenses – of pedagogy and play and how children, as competent social agents, are engaged in the process of designing their own spaces – and brings a global perspective to the debate around child-friendly environments.
Despite growing evidence of the benefits of nature for health, wellbeing, play and learning, children are increasingly spending more time indoors. Indeed, new policy ideas and public campaigns suggest how children can become better connected with nature, yet linking outdoor space to pedagogy is largely overlooked in research. By focusing on three themes within these debates, place and play; place and pedagogy; and place and participation, this book explores a variety of angles to show that best practice requires dialogue between research disciplines, designers, educationists and psychologists, and a move beyond seeing the spaces children inhabit as the domain only of childhood professionals.
Through illustrated case studies this book presents a wider picture of the state of childhood today, and offers practical solutions and further research avenues that promote a more holistic and internationally focused perspective on place, pedagogy and play for built-environment professionals.
Chapter 12 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Foreword
Professor Robin Moore
[Professor of Landscape Architecture, NC State College of Design]
Preface
Professor Catharine Ward Thompson
[Professor of Landscape Architecture, the University of Edinburgh]
Introduction
Simon Bell, Matluba Khan and Jenny Wood
Introduction to Part 1: Place and Play
Simon Bell, Estonian University of Life Sciences
Chapter 1: The impacts of outdoor play environment intervention on children’s play behaviour in the context of Canada
Janet Loebach and Heidi Campbell, Thrive Design Consulting (Ontario, Canada)
Chapter 2: Manufactured Play Equipment or Loose Parts? This is the Question. Which play materials encourage more creative play amongst children in Scottish nurseries?
Reyhaneh Mozaffar, University of Edinburgh
Chapter 3: Growing up in Beijing: Children’s outdoor play experiences in the historic protected inner city area.
Pai Tang and Helen Woolley, University of Sheffield
Chapter 4: The impact of kindergarten play landscape design on children’s play behaviour and development: the case of Tartu, Estonia
Bhavna Mishra, Aalto University
Chapter 5: Reflections on a study of sensory gardens for children with special educational needs in England
Hazreena Hussein, University of Malaya
Introduction to Part 2: Place and Pedagogy
Matluba Khan, University College London
Chapter 6: Turning the classroom inside out: How enhancing the indoor-outdoor relationship of space can improve science learning in preschool classrooms
Muntazar Monsur, North Carolina State University
Chapter 7: Enacting participatory learning in the Early Years through a place-based approach.
Kirsten Darling-McQuistan, University of Aberdeen
Chapter 8: Encounter, Touch, Affiliation and Surrender: Knowing nature for better teaching and learning in Scotland
Cathy Francis, University of Aberdeen
Chapter 9: Closing the attainment gap in Scottish education: the case for outdoors as a learning environment in early primary school
Jamie Hamilton, Heriot-Watt University
Chapter 10: A schoolyard design for pedagogy and play in Bangladesh: does it have an impact on children?
Matluba Khan University College London and Simon Bell, University of Edinburgh
Chapter 11: Can active play encourage physical literacy in children and young people?
Patrizio De Rossi, University of Stirling
Introduction to Part 3: Place and Participation
Jenny Wood, Heriot-Watt University
Chapter 12: Planning for Heterotopia: Towards a spatial theory of children’s participation
Jenny Wood, Heriot-Watt University
Chapter 13: The Chair Project: co-creation through material play
Simon Beeson, Arts University Bournemouth
Chapter 14: Children's perspectives on green space management in Sweden and Denmark
Märit Jansson and Inger Lerstrup, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Chapter 15: Planning for equity in Sweden- insights from the perspective of the girl
Angelica Akerman, Rebecca Rubin, and Moa Lindunger, White Arkitekter, Gothenburg
Chapter 16: Opportunities and Challenges for young People's Participation in Chinese urban planning: reflections on the experiences of emerging adults
Yupeng Ren, University of Dundee
Conclusion
Simon Bell, Matluba Khan and Jenny Wood
Biography
Matluba Khan PhD is a Lecturer in Urban Design at Cardiff University. She is an architect and landscape architect from Bangladesh and her doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh focused on co-design, development and evaluation of outdoor learning environments in elementary schools in Bangladesh. She co-founded the charity A Place in Childhood (APiC) with Dr Jenny Wood in 2018.
Simon Bell PhD, CMLA studied forestry at the University of Bangor, landscape architecture at the University of Edinburgh and took his PhD at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. He is co-director of the OPENspace Research Centre at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh and Chair Professor of landscape architecture at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. He was president of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) between 2012 and 2018.
Jenny Wood PhD is a Research Associate in the Institute for Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (I-SPHERE) at Heriot-Watt University. She gained her PhD in children’s rights and the Scottish town planning system in 2016, and currently contributes to research on homelessness and poverty. She co-founded A Place in Childhood (APiC) with Dr Matluba Khan in 2018.
