Children in Europe -- A sense of place: Environments, community and services for young children

Description:

Place and community, as much as families, can shape children's lives, informing their sense of identity, social relationships and understanding of the world. Issue 18 considers the significance of 'place' and community and their relationship with services for young children.

Find out more about farm kindergartens and place based learning in Norway, the Maori concept of whanau, family and inter-generational learning in England, economic regeneration in Italy and vertical clustering of schools and pre-schools in Portugal and what the European Commission is doing to support these developments.

The issue also includes an interview with the Scottish artist, John Bellany who explains why his childhood in Scotland's east coast fishing communities has proved a lifelong inspiration for his work as an artist.

Table of contents:

- Editorial overview: From place-based learning to economic regeneration: why a sense of 'place' matters
- 'Life drawing' -- the fishing villages that shaped an artist's life.
- Born free? Children's experience of growing up today
- Growing up in rural Poland
- Place-based education in Norway
- Access to education for all: how does the European Union contribute?
- Education for all: why the EU needs a set of distinctive education policies
- A sense of place begins with the Maori concept of whanau
- Family learning: Supporting the family as a catalyst for change areas
- Developing opportunities for Roma children in Croatian kindergartens and schools
- The Portel Vertical Cluster: Establishing a framework for educational activities on an area-wide basis
- From farm nurseries to reception centres: Rural development strategies in the
Italian regions of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna
- Developing and professionalising childcare services for children aged 0-3 years in the French Community of Belgium
- Making use of nature: Developing access to the countryside in Denmark's cities