Children’s active travel, local activity spaces and wellbeing: A case study in Perth, WA

Babb, Courtney; Olaru, Doina; Curtis, Carey; Robertson, Dave

doi:10.1016/j.tbs.2017.06.002

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“…The authors found that walking activity spaces were significantly smaller than neighbourhoods, were included within but comprised a small proportion of the defined area, and became more compact following the intervention. Similar comparisons between activity spaces and neighbourhoods or ‘potential’ activity spaces (possible environments that could be used) are made elsewhere (Villanueva et al, 2012; Colabianchi et al, 2014; Rundle et al, 2016; Babb et al, 2017) with reports of comparable findings that walking activity spaces are smaller than neighbourhood buffers used in walkability research (Rundle et al, 2016).…”

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“…These were typically assessed using a buffer (n = 7). Buffers of active trips or routes to and from home or school were generally smaller than those employed for other movement limits, ranging from 50 m to 500 m. One study used MCP and SDE measures to summarise the space used to make trips to or from home (Babb et al, 2017) and five studies interpolated environmental characteristics directly from point or polyline locations, describing the locations used for physical activity or passed on route (McMinn et al, 2014; Rodriguez et al, 2015; Larsen, Buliung and Faulkner, 2016; Kang et al, 2017; Quistberg et al, 2017).…”

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Activity spaces in studies of the environment and physical activity: A review and synthesis of implications for causality

2019

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Activity spaces are increasingly used to understand how people interact with their environment and engage in activity but their use may raise challenges regarding causal inference. We conducted a systematic review of findings and the methodological, analytical and conceptual issues relevant to causal inference. Studies were included if they comprised a spatial summary of locations visited, assessed any part of the causal pathway between the environment, physical activity and health, and used quantitative or qualitative methods. We searched seven electronic databases in January 2018 and screened 11910 articles for eligibility. Forty-seven studies were included for review. Studies answered research questions about features of or environmental features within activity spaces using a range of spatial and temporal summary techniques. The conceptual challenge of using activity spaces to strengthen causal inference was rarely considered, although some studies discussed circularity, temporality, and plausibility. Future studies should use longitudinal and experimental designs and consider the potential and actual use of spaces for physical activity, and their relationship with total levels of activity.

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Activity spaces in studies of the environment and physical activity: A review and synthesis of implications for causality

2019

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“…The term "children's activity space" is often replaced by distance in traditional studies. Children's activities in the neighborhood are usually carried out within 400 meters of their home [18]. In some studies, researchers taught children to wear GPSs and accelerators to measure their physical and daily life activities [14,22,38].…”

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“…The interaction between children and the environment plays a very important role in children's development and physical health [16] and directly affects children's interaction with society [17]. For children, the activity space includes home, school, and a "third place" [18]. In the competition for the development of urban built-up spaces, children's public activity spaces are neglected; public activity space gradually decreases, and children are blocked from streets, squares, nature and other activity spaces.…”

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The Places Children Go: Understanding Spatial Patterns and Formation Mechanism for Children’s Commercial Activity Space in Changchun City, China

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Yao

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In recent years, the demand for children’s activities has been increasing, and the children’s consumer market has expanded annually. A large number of urban commercial spaces for children’s activity that meet the needs of children’s activities have been built in Chinese cities. This paper analyzed the distribution of these spaces in Changchun City, divided children’s activity space into five categories, analyzed the distribution and spatial differentiation using ArcGIS tools, and discussed the formation mechanism of the spatial pattern of children’s activity space. The results show that: (a) The spatial agglomeration of children’s activity places in Changchun was remarkable and formed a multicore spatial pattern of three municipal and six district-level centers. (b) Different varieties of children’s activity places showed significant spatial differences with “center–periphery” and spatial distribution patterns and each block unit had specialized characteristics. (c) The diversification and social demand for children’s activities, children’s consumption (a new growth factor for the modern service industry), market competition for rent, coupling relationship with urban functional areas, traffic convenience and accessibility, and changes of children’s activity behavior patterns and preferences were the main factors that influence commercial children’s activity space in Changchun. (d) The inequitable spatial distribution of children’s activities, the poor accessibility of children’s activity places, the lack of outdoor places and natural elements, the excessive concentration of children’s activities, and the lack of reasonable guidance of children’s commercial activity places in the city pose challenges for daily activities of urban children. Based on these results, this paper put forward some constructive policy suggestions, such as the planned addition of children’s public places and children’s outdoor places, enriched green and natural elements of children’s places, the construction of children’s activities facilities in residential areas, and the addition of children’s activity facilities in the compulsory standards for urban construction.

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“…Una amplia gama de aseveraciones pueden tener lugar a partir de esta premisa, pero es una realidad que los desempeños cognitivos limitados en el tiempo tienen un lugar preponderante en la escuela (Babb, Olaru, Curtis & Robertson, 2017;Westman, Olsson, Gärling & Friman, 2017), y que estos -a veces como consecuencia y otras veces como causa de las prácticas evaluativas-están atravesados por factores emocionales, culturales, sociales, económicos e incluso orgánicos del sujeto que aprende, cuya convergencia constituye la necesidad de volver la mirada al rigor pedagógico, como acto transformador (Rengifo, 2017;Westman et al, 2017).…”

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La riqueza de la evaluación en la escuela, un tesoro no oculto

2020

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El artículo presenta algunas reflexiones acerca de: el potencial de evaluación que está en las diversas experiencias escolares de los estudiantes; la importancia de definir el propósito de la evaluación desde su dimensión ética; y la forma como a través de ella se logra visibilizar la construcción de los aprendizajes, al trascender su concepción de instrumento de medición y cuantificación. Por lo tanto, se establece una relación entre algunas situaciones cotidianas en el ámbito educativo y las características de la evaluación como recurso, los principios éticos que la rigen y las necesidades de las nuevas generaciones para la consolidación de un mundo a su alcance, que les permita el desarrollo de su potencial cognitivo, creativo, afectivo y social.

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Children’s active travel, local activity spaces and wellbeing: A case study in Perth, WA

Cited by 39 publications

References 56 publications

Activity spaces in studies of the environment and physical activity: A review and synthesis of implications for causality

Activity spaces in studies of the environment and physical activity: A review and synthesis of implications for causality

The Places Children Go: Understanding Spatial Patterns and Formation Mechanism for Children’s Commercial Activity Space in Changchun City, China

La riqueza de la evaluación en la escuela, un tesoro no oculto

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