Making Sense of Place: Children's Understanding of Large Scale Environments , by N. H. Matthews

Abstract

This book which is clearly written and generously illustrated, unravels how children make sense of place. It demonstrates that, either at birth or shortly after, all children are natural environmental mappers and protogeographers. Its author, a geographer who is equally at ease with psychological research, also makes valuable suggestions on how adults can make provisions for play and schooling which take into account children's environmental needs and capabilities. This is the most comprehensive, and current, work to date on the psychology of children's understanding of geography. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)