Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"School playground"”.
-
School Playground Supervision Practices in the State of Iowa
1 PDF file (92 leaves)
-
Dynamics of school playground use in low-income neighborhoods : Four case studies from Newark, New Jersey
… Jersey, several existing inner-city elementary school playgrounds have been rebuilt through public-private partnerships involving the municipal government, school district, and nonprofit agencies. This study explores the extent to which neighborhood children use these renovated playgrounds …
-
Children's acting senses in place-making: mapping and analysing children's reflective individual and collective sensepointscapes in a primary school playground renewal co-design project with architecture students.
… and interpreted some design proposals for their school play area. These proposals had been obtained in a previous co-design process involving 35 primary school children, aged between 4 to 12 years, and 25 stage-three architecture students based in the North East of Scotland. The originality and …
-
A Survey of Practices and Attitudes of Elementary Educators Regarding Playground Supervision in Douglas and Chelan Counties
… for this study were: (1) to discover existing playground practices in selected elementary schools in Central Washington, (2) to discover existing attitudes of teachers in selected schools in Central Washington, and (3) to gather information that would aid teachers and administrators in the …
-
An exploration of outdoor play and wellbeing in Northern Irish primary schools
… negative outcomes. For many local children, the school playground is the only accessible outdoor space available to them on a regular basis and is therefore a critical site in terms of promoting wellbeing. By applying the Affordances framework (Gibson, 1979), this thesis argues that the school …
-
Speaking from Places: A Phenomenological Deconstructive Study of Children’s Places, Child-Centric Methods, and Politics.
… children’s voices in designing their school playground. The study developed and employed two novel child-centric methods, an <em>Embedded Walk </em>and a <em>Communal Child-Map</em> <em>Project</em> in order to integrate parents’ and children’s experiences of the school spaces the …
-
Machiavellianism and female friendships: Investigating behaviour through self-report and observational methods
… girls’ behaviour with same-sex peers on their school playground. This study showed that girls with higher Distrust scores engaged in less social exclusion behaviour and girls with higher Lack of Faith scores or higher Distrust scores spent less time rejecting other children’s bids to join their …
-
Behaviour with peers and perceptions of self: correlates of attachment
… was assessed through direct observation on the school playground for five 15-minute periods. A continuous commentary of interactions was made into a hand-held microphone, while a radio microphone concealed on the child picked up the child's speech and speech directed toward him/her. A 15-minute …
-
School-based health promotion: understanding the educational context to facilitate change
… intervention efforts, which largely focus on school settings, are reported to have failed and reasons for intervention outcomes remain poorly understood. To improve understanding of these outcomes, and the school context as a venue to facilitate change, I adopted an interdisciplinary approach, …