How do we understand children and young people‎'‎s lives in ways that do not rely on nostalgic romantic ideals or demonising prejudices‎?‎ Can the geographical concepts of space‎,‎ place and spatiality enhance our understanding of childhood and how children experience their lives as social actors‎?‎ This book draws on a rich and growing academic literature concerned with the spatiality of childhood and the spaces and places in which children live‎,‎ learn‎,‎ work‎,‎ and play‎.‎ It examines changing ways of seeing space‎,‎ place and environment and how these can promote rethinking about children‎'‎s lives across local and global scales‎.‎ In common with other texts in the ‎"‎New Childhoods‎"‎ series‎,‎ it asks for a reappraisal of modernity‎'‎s assumptions about childhood and for a move towards full participation of children and young people in matters that concern us all‎.‎ Combining critical discussion of theory with examples drawn from research‎,‎ Rethinking Children‎'‎s Spaces and Places offers readers a language to facilitate rethinking and catalyse active responses to the challenges of 21st‎-century childhoods‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ David Blundell
• Publisher‎:‎ Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781472581471