This study is to see which places are recognized as significant or reluctant for children in their resident environmental space, which seems to become poor for children in their everyday activities, and to examine what has caused such formation of pla...
This study is to see which places are recognized as significant or reluctant for children in their resident environmental space, which seems to become poor for children in their everyday activities, and to examine what has caused such formation of placeness of children. To pursue these aims, this study first consider some conceptual contexts of place and placeness and residential life of children. And then this study conducts questionary survey, to children in the sixth grade of 3 primary schools in Jisandong Soosunggu Daegu, especially dividing and comparing two groups of children who live in independent houses and row houses, and those who live in apartment complexes. The results of this study can be summarized as follows:
First, we classified questions for child’s cognition about his resident environment physical factor, behavioral factor and psychological factor, and compared children in apartment from children in independent and row houses. As a result, only between physical and behavioral factor are statistically different, but not in psychological factor. That is, by the function that residence should be, child, regardless of the resident type, had the same feelings psychologically to their resident space. Also, children showed that they responded positively in all items and most of them are generally satisfied with their resident environment.
Second, the village center of which children cognized, regardless of resident type, was responded all highly the school, we could see that the center for children was cognized the place, centralized by their activities rather than the real point of visual, symbolical and scale side. Also, the distance to the center showed to be very near to their resident place.
Third, the past children, as they actively used an alley even a distant place like a natural environment, were good at their social, geographical accessibility to the distant places, different from now, diverse outdoor places showed generally even applying frequency. But the favorite place for actual children, different from the past, was responded downtown factor near to their houses, we could see that the meaning of downtown like a place for children who live in cities become very high. Besides, their favorite place responded corresponded to positive environmental factor, but also such negative environmental factor as traffic and harmful factor if they provide them with the resource to play with be their favorite place, while though the place corresponds to the positive environmental factor if the environment isn’t agreeable or funny children cognized there to be averse place. That is, the preference of place for child showed to be different not only its physical environment but also his contribution of importance of which child himself does by his actions in the place.
Children cognize much the place they frequent within their resident environment or the environment they have been given some of visual stimulus, conscious or unconsciously showed resident environment have a lot of effect on children’s formation of placeness. In the dramatic process of urbanization so far, the effort to make image, apt to separate city or each of resident area, actually can be said to almost not be realized. The good image to the resident environment makes children form emotional security and harmonious placeness. So, the further resident environment should be planed to give children more positive effect.