Natural Environment and Management for Children’s Play and Learning in Kindergarten in an Urban Forest in Kyoto, Japan
Natural Environment and Management for Children’s Play and Learning in Kindergarten in an Urban Forest in Kyoto, Japan
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日本京都城市森林幼儿园儿童玩耍和学习的自然环境和管理
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10.1007/978-4-431-56856-8_8
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发表时间：
2021
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Yamashita Ikuko
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作者：
Sudo Tomomi;Lin Shwe Yee;Hasegawa Hayato;Ito Keitaro;Yamashita Taro;Yamashita Ikuko
现代社会中，人们越来越关注儿童与自然之间的联系。自然区域的保护和管理对于为儿童和野生动物提供自然体验都非常重要。因此，城市地区需要提高绿色空间的质量，以保护生物多样性并促进儿童直接体验自然。本研究的主要目的是通过对日本京都城市森林幼儿园的案例研究，从生态角度探讨现有城市儿童自然环境的质量和管理。通过环境调查和访谈，收集数据，重点关注（1）幼儿园的教育特点，（2）操场的物理环境，（3）游戏活动，以及（4）教师的自然意识。从结果中得出的结论是，为儿童提供直接自然体验的实质品质是自然的多样性可供性、游戏功能及其生态系统。这认识到儿童的游戏活动及其来自大自然的成果可以称为生态系统服务。因此，游乐场需要采用生态系统管理的方法，利用现有的自然场所作为游乐场有可能成为城市生态系统保护和管理的新方式。
There is a great and growing concern about the connection between children and nature in modern society. Conservation and management of natural areas is very important both for providing nature experiences for children and for wildlife. Therefore, improving quality of green spaces to preserve biodiversity as well as to promote children’s direct experiences of nature is required in urban areas. The main aim of this research is to explore the quality and management of the existing urban natural environment for children from the ecological perspective through a case study of a kindergarten in an urban forest in Kyoto, Japan. The data were collected focusing on (1) educational characteristics of the kindergarten, (2) physical environment of playground, (3) play activities, and (4) teacher’s awareness of nature through the environmental survey and interview. From the results, it was concluded that the substantial qualities that provide direct experience of nature for children are diverse affordances of nature, functions for play, and its ecosystems. This recognizes that children’s play activities and its outcomes from nature can be called ecosystem services. Thus playgrounds need to employ an approach for ecosystem management, and utilizing the existing natural places as a playground have the potential to be a new way of urban ecosystem conservation and management.