Childhood in the Suburbs and the Australian Dream
How Has it Impacted Children's Independent Mobility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005406 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Rudner (0000-0002-7912-676X, La Trobe University, corresponding author), Karen Malone (0000-0002-9904-7081, Western Sydney University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 207-225 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Studies of Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-6106 • E-ISSN: 2043-6106 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/gsch.2011.1.3.207 |
| OpenAlex | W2155999259 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article presents the research results from a study conducted in New South Wales, Australia about primary school children's independent mobility (CIM), their concerns, and the concerns of their parents. These results are compared with a similar study conducted in 1992. Data were collected using written questionnaires, one for children and one for their parents, distributed via three primary schools. The key findings indicate that school travel has not substantially changed over the past 18 years, although there has been a slight mode shift from walking to school bus travel. Children would like to engage in active transport and have more freedom to do other activities on their own; however, parents restricted CIM based on age, and concerns about traffic and strangers. Although there were localised differences in the survey results, it is hard to determine what influence these factors had on CIM
Dream · Key (lock · Pedagogy · Primary education · Sociology · Computer Science · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Psychology · Transportation Planning and Optimization · Urban Transport and Accessibility
George Herbert Mead on Social Psychology
Children's Access to Local Environments
Personal, Family, Social, and Environmental Correlates of Active Commuting to School
Risk anxiety and the social construction of childhood
Public Space and the Culture of Childhood
The extent of children's independent mobility and the number of actualized affordances as criteria for child-friendly environments
Playing it safe
The bubble‐wrap generation
Children's Competence and the Ecology of Communities
| Citations per year | 0.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |