Nature’s dangers, nature’s pleasures: urban children and the natural world

Kong, L., 2000, Nature’s dangers, nature’s pleasures: urban children and the natural world, in: Holloway, S.L. & G. Valentine, ‘Children’s geographies’, Routlegde, London

  • Author : Kong, L.
  • Year : 2000
  • Published in Book : Children’s geographies
  • Pages : 258-271
  • Outline in English : This chapter focuses children in a highly urbanised setting and explores their constructions and experiences of nature. Through playing in, learning from and caring for nature, children are engaged socially intellectually and emotionally.
  • Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: children, nature, play, learning, urban, significance, Singapore.