Essays about: "sense of place in childhood"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 essays containing the words sense of place in childhood.

  1. 6. Sense of place in a changing small town

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Mattias Petersson; [2020]
    Keywords : Sense of place; spirit of place; production of space; architecture; placelessness; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Changes in the landscape may affect our relation to specific places. In an increasingly globalized world with a global culture where planners and developers try to attract to the common and the average human, places run the risk of losing their unique characteristics. READ MORE

  3. 7. Staying in Niue? : Students' spatial plans related to value systems and climate change

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Astrid Gustafsson; [2019]
    Keywords : student migration; staying; Niue; values; cyclone; studentmigration; stanna; värderingar; cykloner; Niue;

    Abstract : The Niuean population has been in decline since the airport opened on the island. This thesis investigates a specific aspect of the migration from the island: what final year high school students in Niue plans to do after graduation in relation to leaving or staying in Niue. READ MORE

  4. 8. Programmering i førskolen - Pedagogers forståelser og forutsetninger

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Linda Olsson; [2018]
    Keywords : programming; early childhood education; digital competence; TPCK; knowledge; educators understanding; teaching conditions; preschool;

    Abstract : The aim of this paper is to study educators’ understanding of programming in early childhood education and what conditions they find to be necessary to work with programming. This study has taken place in a specific context where the curriculum is in a process of change in Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 9. Nostalgia in George Orwell's Coming Up For Air

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Shima Nourmohammadi; [2011]
    Keywords : Nostalgia in Coming Up For Air; George Orwell s Coming Up For Air; George Orwell; Nostalgia;

    Abstract : Modernity has changed the world and subsequently has caused emotional wounds and a sense of nostalgia for those pleasant times and places left in the past. In fact, nostalgia and modernity were two principle notions that people face in the early 20th century. This study calls on the notion of nostalgia defined by J. READ MORE

  6. 10. A place called home

    University essay from SLU/Landscape Architecture (until 121231)

    Author : Kaisa-Leena Aksli; [2009]
    Keywords : place perception; landscape architecture; sense of place; home place; rootedness vs. travelling;

    Abstract : My aim in this paper is to reflect upon how people perceive places based on their experiences of places. I will discuss following questions: do they consider home as special places with which they compare places later in their lives? Would they rather think that the other places which they have visited later on in their life have been more important for them to understand their perception of place? Do they tend to prefer landscapes which are similar to their childhood landscape? Do they consider themselves attached to one certain place or they think they are mobile person? Do they believe that somewhere else is always better than where they currently are? Maybe they have thought why it might be so?In order to reflect upon these questions I conducted an interview study where I discussed these things with six landscape architect students who are on their last year of studies. READ MORE