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YOUNG CHILDREN’S SPATIAL AUTONOMY IN THEIR HOME ENVIRONMENT AND A FOREST SETTING

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Green C. J.
Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
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2018
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vol. 9
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issue 1
65 – 85
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Places assigned and places chosen have major implications for the lives of children. While the former are a result of children’s subordinate position in an adult world, the latter are the essence of their agency. Beginning at a young age children seek out places to claim as their own. Places, real and imaginary, shape children and children shape them. This phenomenon of spatial autonomy is a formative, and extraordinary, part of their identity formation. While spatial autonomy has been casually referred to in the children’s geographies literature, a theoretical framing of the concept is generally lacking. This article draws together findings from two research studies, which were conducted by the author, to further theorize the meaning of young children’s (ages 3-6 years old) spatial autonomy in their home environment and a forest setting. Informed by a phenomenological framework, the studies used children’s tours as a method. The findings reveal that spatial autonomy is an expression of children’s independence enacted through symbolic play and hiding activities. The children sought out small places and high places where they could observe others while maintaining autonomy. Additionally, spatial autonomy is relational, negotiated within adult imposed-regulations and influenced by peers, siblings and other more-than-human elements in their environments. By claiming just-out-off reach places, the children collectively and independently established their own rules and a sense of control. The achievement of spatial autonomy plays an important role in young children’s identity formation, boasting their self-confidence as they develop a sense of self with places in all the various environments of their lives.
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'THE TROPES OF TOPOGRAPHY'. REGIONALISM AND SENSE OF PLACE IN THE LITERATURE OF THE ZIELONA GORA REGION (LAND LEBUS) / 'Tropy topografii'. Zwiazki miedzy regionalizmem i miejscem w tworczosci lubuskiej

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Mikolajczak M.
Ruch Literacki
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2010
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vol. 51
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issue 1 (198)
93-106
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This article tries reassess the regional literature of the region of Zielona Gora (the historic Lebus Land) from a critical perspective which takes into account the 'topographic shift' and the changing status of the periphery in literary studies. In the 'Europe of regions' it is the local that claims to be the central reference point. The shift in critical interests opens new questions about both the rank and status of regional literature and the manner in which it represents the sense of place which is crucial to its identity. The case in point is the literary production of the Zielona Gora region. Its identity, which functions as a predominantly normative concept, is determined by its geographical locus and links with the idea of the region. It can be studied in the framework of 'tropes of topography' – a geopoetics which informs the work of regional writers and whose four markers are outlined in the article. The author of the article hopes that this critical framework and the preceding discussion will become a starting point for analyses, thematic surveys and comparative studies which combine the resources of literary criticism and the input of regional studies.
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