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  • Hilltop geography for young children : creating an outdoor learning laboratory
  • Children ; Environmental perception ; Pedagogy ; Teaching of geography
  • Geography is children's literature, math, science, art and a whole world of activities
  • List of children's fictional literature titles which relate to the geographic concepts of place, location, or region. Suggestions for specific classroom activities in which geography and other school subjects can be integrated. - (DWG)
  • Lichenometry of Lecanora muralis as a method for an air pollution survey by school children
  • School children (age between 6 and 16 years) participated in an air pollution survey in the Brussels region. The lichenometric method used shows that air pollution, especially SO2 pollution, influences lichen growth and development. A map
  • of the growth rate of the epilithic species Lecanora muralis was drawn for the greater Brussels area and compared with SO2 pollution in this area. The lichenometric method contributes to the general development and education of children. - (Les AA.).
  • Kaqchikel gardens : women, children, and multiple roles of gardens among the Maya of Highland Guatemala
  • A. seeks to fill a lacuna of kitchen gardens in Latin America by examining the role of women and children within those gardens and the non-material functions their production supports. Material aspects of gardens centered on provision of extra food
  • and religious/medicinal plants. Nonmaterial effects centered on educating children about cropping and nature. Study is based on fieldwork in three small cities in the Kaqchikel region of Guatemala. - (SLD)
  • Reaching critical mass ? Theory, politics, and the culture of debate in children's geographies
  • Children ; Children's geographies ; Human geography ; Social geography ; United Kingdom ; Young people
  • Cross-cultural study of young children's mapping abilities
  • Aerial photography ; Behaviour ; Cartography ; Children ; Cognitive process ; Cultural studies ; Spatial representation
  • The mapping abilities of four-year-old children in York, Durban, Tehran, Mexico City and Evanston are investigated, using a methodology involving air-photo identification and simulated navigation on an air photo. The results show that essential
  • The geography of children and children's geography in Environmental perception and behavior: An inventory and prospect.
  • Determinants of contraceptive use in rural Bangladesh : the demand for children, supply of children, and costs of fertility regulation
  • Children ; Cultural studies ; Japan ; Landscape ; Pedagogy ; Teaching of geography
  • Shows how children's literature about Japan can be used to teach students in the 5 to 12 age group about that country and its culture. - (DWG)
  • Children ; Czech Republic ; Demographic decline ; Demography ; Family ; Fertility
  • Complete family households in Czech Republic consitute 62% of the Census Households (1991). Long-term decrease of fertility continued after demographic wave in the the eightieth showing further reduction fo share more-children families. - (MS)
  • Children ; Education ; Land use ; Literature ; Mental map ; Place ; Region ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
  • Explains how children's literature encourages geographic thinking, builds geographic skills, and develops mental maps of places and regions. - (DWG)
  • Impact of resettlement on refugee children
  • Street children and street life in urban Tanzania : the culture of surviving and its implications for children's health
  • Children ; Enquiry ; Health ; Homelessness ; Living conditions ; Tanzania ; Town ; Urban life ; Urban society
  • The number of children affects both the costs and the resources of a family. On one hand, family allowances increase the income earned by the parents| on the other, the maintenance of the children directly affects expenditure| finally, income tax
  • rates take account of the number of dependent children. In this paper an attempt has been made to a balance-sheet of the resources available to a couple over a life span of 40years, depending on the number of children. The allowances are those laid down
  • by the legislation in force in France in 1978. The results show a clear relative deterioration of the standard of living in the middle of the salary scale| in particular, a couple who decide to have three or more children, very quickly make considerable sacrifices
  • Australia ; Children ; Disease ; Environment ; Health ; Medical geography ; Morbidity ; New South Wales ; Social status ; Spatial analysis
  • A preliminary investigation of the spatial distribution of child asthmatics is undertaken in order to identify possible relationships between asthma and location of residence. The residential distribution of children admitted to hospital with asthma
  • is compared with that of asthmatic children identified by a parental questionnaire survey conducted through public primary schools. Certain socioeconomic and housing variables may exacerbate, but not cause, asthma.
  • The Wollongong lead study: an investigation of the blood lead levels of pre-school children and their relationship to soil lead levels
  • Atmospheric pollution ; Australia ; Children ; Enquiry ; Health ; Lead ; New South Wales ; Pollution ; Pollution control ; Spatial analysis ; Trend surface
  • Stability and change in temporal distance between the elderly and their children
  • Children ; Demography ; Distance ; Elderly people ; Family ; Internal migration ; Longitudinal analysis ; Matrimonial status ; Migration model ; United States of America
  • Mothers and children
  • Children ; Education ; Family ; Family size ; Health ; Infant mortality ; Population ; Third World ; United States of America ; Vietnam
  • AIDS ; Children ; Education ; Family ; Impact ; Lesotho ; Social reproduction ; Teaching
  • The AIDS pandemic is transforming family life for many children and prompting concerns about the potential breakdown of social reproduction. In light of this pandemic, ways have been subjected in which schools could further substitute
  • for the diminishing capacities of families. Such initiative remain small in scale and often justified in relation to retaining children in school. There is a need for the education sector ‘role to be understood in relation to an ethics of care, rather than
  • Identifying children's perspectives on anti-social behaviour. Variations by home area and the implications
  • Behaviour ; Children ; Criminality ; Enquiry ; Fear ; Great Britain ; Perception ; Suburbs ; United Kingdom