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School Journey as a Third Place

Theories, Methods and Experiences Around The World
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Journeys to school are an important time and space of transition between homes and schools for children around the world. This book offers interdisciplinary and intercultural insights into children's experiences during their journeys to and from school. With contributions from international experts, it explores how this transitional space becomes a 'third place' where children form social connections, engage with their environment, and gain a sense of autonomy. The book examines diverse contexts and highlights the impact of these journeys on children's daily lives, health, wellbeing, and social interactions, while also addressing challenges such as safety and urban development.
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This book is ideal for educators, researchers, urban planners, and policymakers interested in child development, education, and environmental psychology. It also benefits those involved in designing safe and child-friendly school environments and transport systems.

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Journeys to school are an important time and space of transition between homes and schools for children around the world.

School Journey as a Third Place comprises various chapters providing insights into children's experiences of this essential part of their lives and schooling experience. In an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective, international leaders focus on how children from very different contexts travel between their homes and their schools and how this transitional space impacts their daily lives and interactions with their environment. An overview of different school journeys is covered, laying out the contours of a child-friendly and context-responsive transition to and from school.

The way to and from school becomes a third place for some children who develop meaningful social and environmental relationships, mix with children who do not belong to the same groups, learn, relax, etc. As genuine social actors, children invest one of the last spaces of freedom they are given to apprehend their environment. What specificities arise depending on various experiences and contexts? What similarities can be drawn on this close-to-be generalised transitional practice? How do children themselves act, impact and appreciate the journey to and from school?

Various studies from a wide range of disciplines and using different methods have highlighted benefits and risks related to children's journey to school, providing insightful data regarding modes of transportation, health and wellbeing issues, school organisation and legislation, safety or urban development, etc. Research has also shown how this journey can support positive links between the child and their social and natural environment. Realities, however, vary immensely depending on the context. While some children, conveyed to school, barely have the opportunity to interact with their environment or to benefit from some welcome physical activity after having been sat for several hours in class, others walk long distances or even face relatively serious hazards during their journey.

Series: Anthem Series on Thresholds and Transformations

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  • School Journey as a Third Place
    Journeys to school are an important time and space of transition between homes and schools for children around the world. School Journey as a Third Place comprises various chapters providing insights into children's experiences of this essential part of their lives and schooling experience. In an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective, international leaders focus on how children from very different contexts...
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β€œThe book's multidisciplinary approach in studying children’s school journeys around the world produces rich and exciting new knowledge on children’s autonomous mobility whilst also attesting to the multidimensionality of their lives within this everyday transitional space of theirs” β€”Leena Alanen, Professor Emerita, University of JyvΓ€skylΓ€, Finland.

β€œThis book provides a theoretically and empirically nuanced exploration of the school journey that the contributors highlight with carefully crafted analyses through children’s own voices and experiences. Exploring the school journey as a transitional or third space, the book greatly enriches our understanding of a key but often neglected aspect of children’s daily lives and well-being” β€”Spyros Spyrou, Professor of Anthropology, European University Cyprus.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781839986314

Publisher: Anthem Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Anthem Press

Contributors:

  • Edited by Zoe Moody
  • Edited by Ayuko Berchtold-Sedooka
  • Edited by Sara Camponovo
  • Edited by Philip D. JaffΓ©
  • Edited by FrΓ©dΓ©ric Darbellay

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 268

About the Author

  • Zoe Moody is Professor at the University of Teacher Education Valais and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Children's Rights Studies, University of Geneva.
  • Ayuko Berchtold-Sedooka, PhD, is Research Associate at the Centre for Children's Rights Studies, University of Geneva, and Expert in educational resource production, at education21.
  • Sara Camponovo, PhD is Research Associate at the Centre for Children's Rights Studies, University of Geneva.
  • Philip D. Jaffe is Professor at the Centre for Children's Rights Studies, University of Geneva and a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
  • Frederic Darbellay is Associate Professor at the Centre for Children's Rights Studies, University of Geneva and Head of the Inter- and Transdisciplinary Unit.

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