AFFORDANCES OF CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CITIES, SMALL TOWNS, SUBURBS AND RURAL VILLAGES IN FINLAND AND BELARUS

By Marketta Kyttä. 2002

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Building and Construction, Speech and Hearing

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Parental perception of social risk and of positive potentiality of outdoor autonomy for children: The development of two instruments (2005, background): “…vs. old, Prezza et al., 2001; van der Spek & Noyon, 1997), low degree of urbanisation (suburban vs. inner city, Anderson & Tindall, 1972; rural village vs. city, Kyttä, 2002; small town vs. city, Alparone et al., 2003), and suitable spaces for play near home (Chawla, 1992; Prezza et al., 2001).”
Differences in practitioners’ understanding of play and how this influences pedagogy and children’s perceptions of play (2011, background): “The work of Kytta (2002, 2004) on different physical environments and what they can afford for play shows that, for example, smooth surfaces afford cycling and running whereas a shelter affords hiding or peace and quiet.”
On children's independent mobility: the interplay of demographic, environmental, and psychosocial factors (2012, background): “There are, however, physical characteristics of the environment that promote children’s outdoor autonomy, such as smaller urban contexts (van der Spek and Noyon 1997), the presence of usable play areas close to home (Gaster 1991), and a lower degree of urbanization (Kyttä 1995, 2002).”
Activity, exercise and the planning and design of outdoor spaces (2013, methodology): “While the relationships between urbanisation and affordances were more complex in Belarus, one inference is that city environments offer a more limited range of environmental opportunities for children’s activity than suburban, small town or rural environments (Kyttä, 2002).”
Affordances for Risky Play in Preschool: The Importance of Features in the Play Environment (2009, background): “In accordance with this notion, Kaarby (2004) found, in a study of children’s play in an outdoor preschool (playing in nature areas), that physical activity play such as climbing up very steep hillsides and sliding down again, climbing up and jumping down from big rocks or small cliffs, climbing i”
Outdoor education gives fewer demands for action regulation and an increased variability of affordances (2013, methodology): “Kytta (2002) has used Heft’s taxonomy in her study of affordances for children in different environments in Finland and Belarus; she excluded one of Heft’s superordinate classifications, the classification of aperture, because this classification was difficult to put into operation in her method.”
Child development and the physical environment. (2006, background): “One reason for this may be the wider array of motoric and social play opportunities and greater independent mobility afforded by such spaces (Heft 1988; Kytta 2002, 2004).”
Where Do Children Travel to and What Local Opportunities Are Available? The Relationship Between Neighborhood Destinations and Children’s Independent Mobility (2013, background): “, proximity to destinations visited by children), few studies have considered whether the availability of local neighborhood destinations is associated with children’s IM (Kyttä, 2002).”
Childhood Experiences Associated with Care for the Natural World: A Theoretical Framework for Empirical Results (2023, background): “Marketta Kyttä (2004; 2006) has observed that environments vary in the quality of the affordances that they provide for children. From Edward Reed (1996a), she has borrowed the concepts of “fields of free action,” “promoted action,” and “constrained action.”
Trees, grass, or concrete? The effects of different types of environments on stress reduction (2020, background): “According to affordance theory (Gibson, 1986; Menatti & Casado da Rocha, 2016; Roe & Aspinall, 2011), sentient organisms can directly perceive the meaning and value of environments and react to them (Kyttä, 2002).”