Environment and children : passive lessons from the everyday environment / Christopher Day ; with Anita Midbjer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Day, Christopher, 1942-

Contributor:

Midbjer, Anita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children and the environment.

Architecture--Environmental aspects.

Architecture.

Architecture--Human factors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; London : Architectural, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 groundbreaking book sets out to answer these questions and to offer solutions. Children all too often find themselves living in alien surroundings desi

Contents:

Front Cover; Environment and Children; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Environment for Children; 1. Design by adults: experience by children; Environment and child development; Places as exploratoria; Experience and learning; Experience of place; Different thinking: different learning: different needs; Gender differences; Design for children; 2. Childhood: a journey; Childhood; Children and environment: developing consciousness; The in-between world; Play: preparation for life; Environment and development; 3.Developmental needs: challenge and certainty

Conflicting needsReassurance by design; Security to venture out from; Semi-protected play; Stretching boundaries; Adventure; Creativity: known meeting unknown; The known and the unknown; Part II: Health: Physical, Developmental and Social; 4.Social relationships and place; School society; Bullying; Young and old; Learning sociability; Linking places; Social identity and place; 5.Issues of health; Dirt and hygiene: surfaces and textures; Invisible factors; Materials and air quality; Indoor climate; Outdoor air; Electro-climate; Geopathology; Remedial action

Part III: Environment as an Educational Aid6.Our senses: meeting the world; From sensory experience to integrated thinking; Sensory stimulus and attention; Our many senses; The physical senses; Scent; Touch; Warmth; Sound; Sight; Balance; Movement; The finer senses; The senses and thinking; 7.Light and darkness: age and situation; Light and health; Thinking and dreaming: openness and security; Daylight; Windows; Artificial light; Light and mood; 8.Colour and children; Colour: what is it?; Physiological and mood effects; Colour experience; Outdoor colour; Light, substance and colour

Colour for children9.Space: shape and quality; Response to space; Space-language: from life-energy to thought; Function and space-mood; Usability and space; Classrooms; Things and spaces; Pert IV: Places for Children; 10.What places teach: silent lessons; Silent lessons; Materials and mood; Appearance messages; Permeability and opacity; Place messages; Imprinted values; Invisible education; 11.Welcoming arrival; The journey experience; Arrival: meeting a place; Being there; Indoor journeys; Inner and outer journeys; The arrival journey: pedagogical function; Journeys of welcome

Part V: Environment for Children12.Outdoor places; Outdoor need; Gardens for the soul; Vegetable gardens; Kindergarten gardens; Outdoor learning; Educational benefits; School grounds; Greening playgrounds; 13.Environment for the developing child; Children and environment; Small children; Mid-childhood; Teenagers; Nourishing children's developmental journey; Part VI: Sustainability Lessons from Surroundings; 14.Learning to care for the environment; From reverence to conscious care; Absorbing values; 15.Making nature's cycles visible; Cycles and nature; Solar cycles; Seasonal cycles

The nutrient cycle

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-40550-X

1-281-03655-2

9786611036553

0-08-055097-5

9780080550978

OCLC:

476098578