New Issue of Young Children Added to the UNT Dallas Library Collection

In this month's issue of Young Children, Pamela Brillante and Sue Mankiw discuss in their article "A Sense of Place: Human Geography in the Early Childhood Classroom" the importance of teaching children a sense of place to give them the tools and knowledge needed for protecting natural and cultural resources, reducing violence, and fostering increased quality of life worldwide. The authors discuss how space and place are two different things: space is just a location while a sense of place describes a feeling of being at home. It is important for all children to have a sense of place in their community, especially children with disabilities and children who speak another language. The authors then describe different activities teachers can do in the classroom and the neighborhood that can help to begin the development of this sense of place.

You can read this article and more in this month's edition of Young Children in the UNT Dallas Library.

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