Place, Pedagogy and Play by Simon Bell

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Place, Pedagogy and Play by Simon Bell

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Place, Pedagogy and Play connects landscape architecture with education, psychology, public health and planning.

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Place, Pedagogy and Play by Simon Bell

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.

Simon Bell is Professor of Innovation and Methodology at the Open University in the UK and CEO of the Bayswater Institute in London, UK. He has held a number of Visiting Professor roles. With over 100 published books and articles, Simon has written on subjects including information systems methodology, action research, participatory methods, coastal sustainability, systemic approaches to environmental problem structuring, sustainability indicators and fear management.

Stephen Morse is Chair in Systems Analysis for Sustainability in the Centre for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Surrey, UK. Steve has a background in applied ecology and the environment and his research and teaching interests are broad, spanning both the natural and social sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Society of Biology and the Higher Education Academy and has published 18 books and over 140 academic papers, many of them on the assessment of sustainability (including indicators).

SKU NGR9780367086374
ISBN 13 9780367086374
ISBN 10 0367086379
Title Place, Pedagogy and Play
Author Simon Bell
Condition new
Binding type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2020-08-03
Number of pages 248
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