JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHILDREN

The Journal of Environmental Psychology plans a special issue on
children
and their environment. There is much research activity in a variety of
disciplines which would fall broadly under this heading: from the social
sciences and education through to the planning disciplines; and, within
psychology, many developmental, social and environmental psychologists
have
contributed to our knowledge. Yet, ironically, not much of this research
has been reported in the main journals of environmental psychology. We
therefore invite people working in this broad field to contact the
editors
(details below) with proposals for articles, reviews and research
reports
which they might be able to offer for this special issue. From these
initial expressions of interest, we would hope to build a special issue
that reflects the range of current activity.


Topics for this special issue might include, for example,

Children's place attachment and their growing sense of self
Environmental cognition and the changing freedoms of the child to
experience their locale
The roles of media and of formal education children's understanding of
distant places
Rural versus urban children's experiences
Development in the understanding of the grammars of place
Facilitating children's participation in planning
Children and safety in the environment
Children's wayfinding and cognitive maps
Design of environments for children
Cross cultural studies of children's environmental cognition


These and many other topics could constitute worthwhile contributions to
the special issue. So too would literature reviews that give
consideration
to the approaches that environmental psychologists have taken in
researching children and their environments.

Authors should remember the willingness of Journal of Environmental
Psychology to include good quality black and white photographs and other
relevant illustrations.

Please send ideas for submissions to the special issue editors:

Christopher Spencer and Mark Blades
Department of Psychology,
University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, S10 2TN
UK

Email addresses:

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Full papers should reach the editors at the above address no later than
31st MAY 2001.



Mark Blades
Department of Psychology
University of Sheffield
Sheffield  S10 2TN   UK

Telephone  0114 222 6549
Fax        0114 276 6515