COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CHILD RESEARCH IN PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
URD 5184 CHILD RESEARCH IN PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÖZDE EKŞIOĞLU ÇETINTAHRA

Offered to

Urban Design
M.Sc. Urban Design

Course Objective

It s known that children behaviors on different scaled places are affected by demographic, developmental, social, cultural and economic variables. In view of the fact that children perceive the place different from adults and act according to that perception, the places characteristics that designed for children may need to be different from the places characteristics that designed for adults. In this course, it s aimed to discuss how the children perceive the place, and how they act according to that perception. As well, it aimed to measure the discussed physical environmental variables that are influential on children s place perceptions, furthermore, children s behaviours on places by an empirical research.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, the students are expected to define the theories on children development and child-place interaction, and variables that influence child behaviours,
2   to compare the children place implementations on world and Türkiye,
3   to interpret the physical environment qualities of urban design scale that are influential on children s place use,
4   to evaluate the methods on measuring children s place perception,
5   to design an empirical research on children places.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Theories on child development
2 Theories on child-place interactions
3 Children rights and child places Examples from world and Türkiye
4 Physical environmental variables that affect child behaviors
5 Perceptional variables that affect child behaviors
6 Methods of measuring children s perception of place
7 Literature discussions on homework topics
8 Handling in homework assignments
9 Design and implement an empirical research
10 Design and implement an empirical research
11 Design and implement an empirical research
12 Homework Presentation
13 Write up a research paper on designed and implemented empirical research
14 Write up a research paper on designed and implemented empirical research

Recomended or Required Reading

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1977). Toward an experimental ecology of human development. American Psychologist, 32 (7), 513-531.
Hart, R. (1979). Children's experience of place. Oxford, England: Irvington.
Heft, H. (1988). Affordances of children s environments: A functional approach to environmental description. CHildren s Environments Quarterly, 5 (3), 29-37.
Gür, Ş.Ö. ve Zorlu, T. (2002). Çocuk Mekanları. Yapı Endüstri Merkezi, Istanbul.
Ekşioğlu Çetintahra, G. (2015). Kentsel Alanda Fiziksel Çevrenin Çocukların Fiziksel Aktivitesi Üzerindeki Etkisi. DEÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Yayınlanmamış Doktora Tezi, Izmir.
Ekşioğlu Çetintahra, G. ve Çubukçu, E. (2018). Çocuklar okula yürüyerek gidebilir mi Yapı
Dergisi, 434, 48-55. Araştırma Makelesi, DAAI.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through conference presentations and literature readings. Students will prepare homework on course topics and make individual presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 RPT REPORT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE RPT * 0.25 + PRS * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE RPT * 0.25 + PRS * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Description and Comparison are evaluated by the Homework assignment. Interpretation and Measure are evaluated by the Presentation. Designing is evaluated by Final Exam.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through conference presentations and literature readings.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gozde.eksioglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 3-4

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 4 10 40
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 40 40
Preparing presentations 1 40 40
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 161

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.111
LO.211
LO.311
LO.411
LO.5111

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