Children's Special Places: Exploring the Role of Forts, Dens, and Bush Houses in Middle Childhood

By David Sobel. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Children's Environmental Concerns: Expressing Ecophobia (2012, background): “Sobel (1993, 1999, 2008) argues that increased societal and media attention to the impacts of environmental problems through “doom and gloom” messages may make children feel overwhelmed, helpless, and pessimistic about the state of the world.”
Nearby Nature (2003, background): “In addition to the studies of adults, research has more recently begun to explore children’s relationships to the natural environment (e.g., Bartlett, 1997, 1998; Coley, Kuo, & Sullivan, 1997; Kahn & Kellert, 2002; R. C. Moore, 1986; Sebba 1991; Sobel, 1993).”
VIEWS OF NATURE AND SELF-DISCIPLINE: EVIDENCE FROM INNER CITY CHILDREN (2002, background): “Studies that have geographically mapped children’s play have found that boys typically play farther from home than girls (Hart, 1979; Sobel, 1993); for reviews see Moore & Young, (1978), Wohlwill and Heft (1987).”
Children in nature: sensory engagement and the experience of biodiversity (2018, background): “…rich interaction with nature (Abram 1996; Carson and Pratt 1965; Chawla 1994, 2002; Cobb 1993; Lekies and Beery 2013; Nabhan and Trimble 1994; Sobel 2002; Wells and Lekies 2006), as well as a broader literature documenting the benefits of children and nature (Children and Nature Network…”
Could Exposure to Everyday Green Spaces Help Treat ADHD? Evidence from Children's Play Settings (2011, background): “Parental lore already includes the notion that “fresh air” and time outside is good for children, and there is evidence that children are drawn to natural settings (e.g. Sobel, 1993).”
Place and the Promise of Conservation Psychology (2003, methodology): “Sobel (1993) has found similar home-range changes over ages like those reported in Hart and Moore by using map-drawing activities (see also Monroe, this issue).”
Children's Friendship with Place: A Conceptual Inquiry (2023, background): “Selfdisclosure and mutual understanding Criterion by which each friend acquires and contributes to an uncommon understanding of the other (Hartup 1989a) A place that allows the exploring and shaping of its many affordances by the child enables the child to create special places for security and priv”
The relationship between school ground design and intensity of physical activity (2009, background): “Moveable, natural materials such as sticks, branches, leaves and stones provide endless opportunities to engage in imaginative play, such as building shelters and huts – an appealing and almost universal experience of childhood that gets them moving (Cobb 1977, Sobel 1993).”