Children’s representations of nature using photovoice and community mapping: perspectives from South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorAdams, Sabirah
dc.contributor.authorSavahl, Shazly
dc.contributor.authorFattore, Tobia
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-31T09:38:55Z
dc.date.available2018-10-31T09:38:55Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe aim of the study was to explore children’s representations and perceptions of natural spaces using photovoice and community mapping. The sample consisted of 28 children aged 12–14 years residing in urban and rural communities in the Western Cape, South Africa. Data were collected by means of a series of six focus groups interviews (three photovoice discussion groups and three community mapping discussion groups). For the photovoice missions, children were provided with a 28-exposure disposable camera and given 1 week to complete their missions. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the data. Three key themes emerged, namely: safe spaces in nature, unsafe spaces in nature, and children’s favourite places in nature. Socio-economic status (SES) was found to be a determining factor in how children make sense of natural spaces. Children from low SES communities indicated being more constricted in their mobility, and were unable to access to safe natural spaces compared to the children from the middle SES community. It is recommended that an expedient starting point would be to work towards and build environmentally and child-friendly communities for children, with children as key contributors in the planning process using a child participation framework.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationAdams, S. et al. (2017). Children’s representations of nature using photovoice and community mapping: perspectives from South Africa. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 12(1): 1333900en_US
dc.identifier.issn1748-2623
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org10.1080/17482631.2017.1333900
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4174
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherCo-Action Publishing:en_US
dc.rights© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectChildrenen_US
dc.subjectVisual representationsen_US
dc.subjectSocio-economic statusen_US
dc.subjectPhotovoiceen_US
dc.subjectCommunity mappingen_US
dc.subjectWestern Capeen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleChildren’s representations of nature using photovoice and community mapping: perspectives from South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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