Show/Hide Menu
Hide/Show Apps
anonymousUser
Logout
Türkçe
Türkçe
Search
Search
Login
Login
OpenMETU
OpenMETU
About
About
Open Science Policy
Open Science Policy
Communities & Collections
Communities & Collections
Help
Help
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Videos
Videos
Thesis submission
Thesis submission
Publication submission with DOI
Publication submission with DOI
Publication submission
Publication submission
Contact us
Contact us
An investigation of mothers’ landscape preferences for their 5-year-old children
Date
2017-08-29
Author
Olgan, Refika
Yılmaz, Simge
Metadata
Show full item record
Item Usage Stats
10
views
0
downloads
Cite This
The current research investigates mothers' (N=20) landscape preferences for their 5-year old children in terms of outdoor setting type (water, park, open field/grassy area, forest), levels of human influence (natural/maintained) and their reasons for choosing those preferences. Researchers asserted that parents are significant mediators of children access to play and play environments (Veitch, Salmon, & Ball, 2007) since children's use of the environment depend on their parents' willingness and time to take them to such places (Brusson, Olsen, Pike, & Sleet 2012, Skar, Gundersen, & O'Brien, 2016). Therefore, it is important to investigate parents' place preferences for their children's play (Evans, 2000). . The criterion of selecting the schools as settings was related to the levels of naturalness in their outdoor environments. As a research instrument, mothers' 239 landscape preferences questionnaire was used. Before the data collection, ethical permission was taken from Turkish Ministry of National Education. Then, the early childhood education centres' managers and teachers were contacted to select volunteer mothers for this research. Results showed that mothers preferred natural park and water settings as their favourites for their children. The most important factor affecting mothers' preferences was the affordances of the landscapes for children's unstructured play. Investigating mothers' landscape preferences could be not only an important guide for educators in terms of preparing early childhood environmental education programmes for young children but also for policy makers for arranging local policy strategies to increase the opportunities for children's unstructured play at different outdoor settings (Veitch et al., 2007)
Subject Keywords
Early childhood education
,
Landscape preferences
,
Mothers
,
Outdoor settings
,
Young children
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/87249
https://www.eecera.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/bologna-2017.pdf
Collections
Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Conference / Seminar
Citation Formats
IEEE
ACM
APA
CHICAGO
MLA
BibTeX
R. Olgan and S. Yılmaz, “An investigation of mothers’ landscape preferences for their 5-year-old children,” presented at the 27th EECERA Annual Conference : Social Justice, Solidarity And Children’s Rıghts, 29th August – 1 st September 2017, Bolzano, Italy, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/87249.