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Direct linkTaylor, Affrica – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
This interdisciplinary article draws upon human geography to bring fresh new perspectives to the relationship between two commonly conflated concepts: "childhood" and "nature". Childhood studies scholars have gone a long way towards retheorizing childhood beyond the "natural" and the "universal" by pointing to its historical and cultural…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Children, Interdisciplinary Approach, Childhood Attitudes
Griffiths, Merris – Children & Society, 2011
This study presents a comparative study of the free-time activity preferences of 9- to 11-year-old children in the UK and USA, as drawn by them in art workshops. Six themes emerged relating to sport, outdoor play, family/peers, media, special occasions and other (indefinable) activities. The children's talk about their drawings revealed additional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Leisure Time, Childhood Interests
Hedges, Helen; Cullen, Joy; Jordan, Barbara – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
Children's interests are frequently cited as a source of early-years curricula. Yet, research has rarely considered the nature of these interests beyond the play-based environment of early-childhood education. This paper reports findings from a qualitative, interpretivist study in two early childhood settings in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Childhood Interests, Curriculum Development
