The extent of children's independent mobility and the number of actualized affordances as criteria for child-friendly environments

By Marketta Kyttä. 2004

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Subfields: Education, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Walking, places and wellbeing (2015, unknown): “Affordances need to be actualised by individuals, by perceiving and actively shaping them (Kytta 2004; Clark and Uzzell 2002).”
Activity, exercise and the planning and design of outdoor spaces (2013, methodology): “GIS based approaches to affordance Kyttä (2002, 2004) has applied the concept of affordance while working at a neighbourhood planning scale and using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping tools, to understand how varying layouts of neighbourhoods offer different kinds and numbers of…”
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.”
Walking to school: Community design and child and parent barriers (2011, background): “Indeed, compared to the past, children throughout the world are less likely to be able to walk without adult accompaniment from homes to a variety of destinations (Kyttä, 2004; Prezza, Alparone, Cristallo, & l: Community design and child and parent barriers, Journal of Envi- Luigi, 2005).”
Restrictive Safety or Unsafe Freedom? Norwegian ECEC Practitioners' Perceptions and Practices Concerning Children's Risky Play (2012, background): “Gibson’s (1979) theory of affordances, further developed by Heft (1988) and Kyttä (2004), states that the physical environment in which we live affords different actions and behaviours.”
Children's Perceptions of the Use of Public Open Spaces for Active Free-play (2007, background): “Children’s independent use of their neighborhood environment and the degree to which they are able to visit places on their own and play outside in safe and challenging environments has been identified as being critical for children (Churchman, 2003; Kytta, 2004).”
Children's play, well-being and involvement: how children play indoors and outdoors in Norwegian early childhood education and care institutions (2019, methodology): “This person-environment relationship is immediate and based on practical activity (Kyttä, 2004; Sandseter, 2009).”
The Childhood Factor (2008, background): “Kyttä (2004) has demonstrated a relationship between the degree of independent mobility that children have and the number of actualized affordances (i.e., opportunities for engagement with the environment that children perceive or take advantage of).”