Making Sense of Place

Part 1 Children's experience of place: children's direct experience of place and space; children's indirect experience of place and space. Part 2 Children's environmental cognition - competing theoretical and methodological perspectives: theoretical perspectives on children's environmental capacity and competence; methodological issues - uncovering children's environmental capabilities. Part 3 The environmental competence of children: factors affecting children's environmental cognition; children's understanding of large-scale space and place; children's use of maps; the influence of sex on children's environmental competence; an empirical evaluation of the development of environmental cognition; children's feelings and attitudes towards their everyday environments. Part 4 Children's environmental needs: educational issues - geography and graphicacy; planning issues - environments for children.